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...Grein raid in Chicago was the first move under what Commissioner Doran proclaimed as a nation-wide drive on hopshops. A Treasury Department interpretation of the Supreme Court decision also raised a shadowy threat of prosecution against many a potent, prosperous grape juice company now shipping an unfermented product in kegs to customers with specific instructions for transforming it into illegal wine...
...must disown responsibility and you may condemn civil disobedience as much as you like. Will you prefer a violent revolt? "History will pronounce the verdict that the British Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which it could understand how to deal with." Shrewd Move. Certainly there was violence enough last week in India (see map). Riots small and great broke out in the chief commercial cities of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay. At Peshawar on the northwestern frontier, in circumstances which censorship obscured, two soldiers were burned to death in an armored car ignited by natives...
...London, mother of four, zealous social reformer, onetime president of St. Gandhi's Indian National Congress which authorized him to declare independence (TIME, Jan. 6), onetime member of the Bombay municipality. Perhaps with more guile than St. Gandhi or Judge Tyabji, Mrs. Naidu did not announce her next move last week, and thus avoided arrest...
...greater than any of these was the share that went to Promoter Hollins. No hole-in-one could have pleased her as much as the $1,500,000 testimony to her foresight and salesmanship. According to current stories, the first move she made after receiving the money was to give $50,000 of it away, $25,000 going to Poloist Eric Pedley, $25,000 to another woman. No charity, these gifts were the result of a "sportsman's agreement" two years ago that the first of the three to make $1,000,000 would give each of the others...
...Author. Memoirist Florence Emily Hardy married Thomas Hardy in February 1914, 16 months after the death of the first Mrs. Hardy. Younger than her husband, she devoted herself to his care, his work, his friends; assiduously noted his every thought and move; be came his female Boswell. Amply aided by the Hardy journal and scores of letters, this book forms the second part of a biography begun with The Early Life of Thomas Hardy (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929), covers the period from 1892 until his death...