Word: mahatma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year George Washington Carver has made two speeches before regional conferences on the Farm Chemurgic Council. Before the microphone he manifested a whimsical simplicity reminiscent of Green Pastures, apostrophizing God as "Mr. Creator." He corresponds with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he emulates in humility and lack of interest in money. When he was younger he got up at 4 a.m., went to the woods to pick flowers, gather specimens, observe animals not visible later in the day, commune with...
...dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME, Oct. 12, et ante)? And what about the Congress' vote to boycott every festivity connected with the Coronation (TIME...
Indians, apart from their groveling submission to princely rajas and maharajas in the Native States, and apart from their tepid interest in the rubber-stamp legislative bodies in British India, have a nationwide political organization which they call the "Indian National Congress," and Mahatma Gandhi is its Prophet. In case it should ever be argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village...
...reversing at the start the biggest news story of the Empire last week. The dispatch contained no particulars of the alleged "enthusiasm" of Indians for the Coronation and this was presumably confined to pukka sahibs in the privacy of their homes. At the Congress sessions last week the Mahatma spoke with his usual mystic benevolence...
...turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank after rank of the Mahatma's supine, unresisting followers. Says Reporter Miller: "I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage and loathing, almost as much against the men who were submitting unresistingly to being beaten as against the police wielding the clubs...