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Chairman Robertson's delegates had met in Chicago three weeks before, had gone home to get authorization to meet and treat with the executives committee of nine headed by Mr. Willard. This accomplished, the R. L. E. A. returned to Cleveland, sent "Uncle Dan" a telegram naming Chicago as the place and Jan. 14 as the date of their joint conference...
...this difference: The Earl of Willingdon on his throne at Delhi can initiate action, decree the most drastic measures?in short, can rule. Last week the return to India of Mahatma Gandhi gave the Viceroy a chance to seem every inch a king. When Mr. Gandhi begged audience by telegram to discuss Lord Willingdon's recent ordinance suppressing free speech, freedom of assembly and virtually all civil rights in Bengal (TIME, Dec. 14), he received from the Viceregal court the telegraphic answer...
...Bombay the Viceregal telegram was publicly called "insulting" by President Vallabhai Patel of the Gandhite Indian National Congress. Other Gandhites shouted: "This means war!" Squatting in his little tent pitched atop a Bombay tenement house, the Mahatma meditated half the night. Then loyal followers heard the scratch, scratch of his pen as he wrote to the Viceroy...
...some live ones at Washington's zoo. Most persons read the resultant news stories with pleasant amusement. But in Chairman John M. Holzworth of the National Committee on Protection and Preservation of Wild Life they provoked nothing but indignation. Last week President Hoover received a telegram from him: "Following the publication of ... the big bear story. . . telegrams and telephone calls have come to our offices from nature lovers protesting against an attitude toward wild life which leads to destruction rather than protection and preservation of our fast disappearing North American big bears . . . harmless unless attacked. ... It is highly important...
...following telegram was received December 16, 1931 by the Naval Academy Graduates' Association of Boston, "Have wired Superintendent of the Naval Academy that the Graduates' Association of New York had nothing to do with the proselyting plan in connection with Naval Academy football players reported in this morning's papers as tacitly sanctioned by the Naval academy Graduates' Association. I suggest that you take similar action. Signed H. G. Smith, President...