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Getting religion twelve years ago, Inayatullah went native with a bang. He became Allama Mashriqi, "The Sage of the East," began preaching resistance to the British as a starter. The Spadecarriers now sport a grandiloquent motto: "To establish hegemony over the world, to become rulers once again, and to conquer the universe...
...Sage's followers began drilling with their spades, rioted in good military order, submitted themselves to an iron discipline enforced by whippings. Tolerated at first by the British Raj because they served as a check on the larger and more troublesome nonviolence groups, the Spadecarriers soon achieved the rank of a first-class nuisance themselves. They grew to a membership of between 200,000 and 400,000 (chiefly in the strongly Mohammedan northwest provinces), were strong enough to parade in public, publicly beat up an unfriendly Moslem member of the Sind Provincial Cabinet...
Rosenbloom, commonly called the "sage of Matthews," has been practicing during recent quiz shows, and expects to walk off with the $25 first prize money. "I am more confident now than before my History I exam," Harvard's own quiz kid said last night as he boarded the train for New York and his big moment...
Last week the oil paradox hurried the whole transport problem on its urgent way to the President's lap. He would have to find a hemisphere-minded Transport Coordinator; Railroader Ralph Budd admitted that his resignation was in the President's hands. Week before. ICC Sage Joseph B. Eastman warned the railroads that if their service breaks down, the Government may take them over again, as in World...
...spiced banquet costing $10.12 a plate. But the very spices they were eating might not be replaceable until war's end. The spice industry is the No. 1 example of a business where shortages will soon be complete, with no recourse to ersatz. Some examples: > Before the war, sage was plucked by Greek and Yugoslav goatherders. With these sources out, U.S. trade prices have risen from 7? to $1.35 a pound. When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage instead, it could not be sold because t smacked of turpentine. Though a sprinking of backyard sage may help...