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1931

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Mahatma Gandhi
Man of the Year
January 5, 1931

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He emerged from jail, having served a nine-month term for a minor offense (gun-carrying), and though widely publicized manage to remain at large. Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence....Read the full story

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