Word: mahatma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanger spent three days with that half-forgotten little holy man, the Mahatma Gandhi.* He, said she, believes "that women should control the whole question of family-how many children and when. He went me one better on that score: I believe that men should say how many children and the women should say when. After all, the fathers have to support the children." But Mrs. Sanger did not bring away St. Gandhi's complete indorsement of her work. Explained she: "He just didn't know much about the subject...
...worker of Mahatma Ghandi in India, Richard B. Gregg '07 will give a short speech in the Eliot House Senior Common Room tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Speaking under the auspices of the Harvard Student Union, Mr. Gregg has chosen as his subject "The Power of Non-Violence...
...Mahatma Gandhi's secretary: "It is impossible for Mr. Gandhi to comment on the death of Mr. Kipling because two more of Mr. Gandhi's front teeth have just had to be extracted...
...Himalayas to pictures of street fighting, of obscene idols, of corpses being burned beside the Ganges. Katherine Mayo supplies a text to accompany these views in a brief, anti-Hindu, over-simplified sketch of Indian history from the Muslim invasion of 999 A. D. to the trials of Mahatma Gandhi in 1935. Readers who do not share her passionate hatred of Hindu ways are likely to remain unimpressed by her purple prose, her tirades against native terrorists and agitators. Holding that "terrorism" in India is now devoted to the "overthrow of any non-Communist government . . . by multiplication of single murders...
King George V, Pope Pius XI, Trotsky, the Emperor of Japan and Mahatma Gandhi are the stars of the author's side show, with Communism cast as the Wild Man from Borneo, and Fascism "the grinning skull at the victor's post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated...