Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Pandit Nehru refused any longer to compromise. Shortly after the recent re-election to the Congress presidency of Subhas Chander Bose, Bengal Leftist leader, over the opposition of M. K. Gandhi, the Mahatma withdrew his support from the organization he had long nurtured. Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...
Politician Gandhi has usually softened the rebels' ardor by giving them big jobs in the party and then hamstringing them with trusted conservative advisers. Elected last year to the Congress presidency-with Saint Gandhi's blessing-was fiery young Subhas Chander Bose, a Bengal leader with a long record of terrorist activities. Considered at first a weakling in politics, President Bose soon began to kick at the Gandhi traces. He forced Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, good friend of Gandhi, to resign as Congress treasurer for "reasons of health." He curried to the masses by charging that Indian Congress officials...
...deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...
Dropping the first three light weight beats, the wrestlers were never able to overcome the Bengal lead in spite of the fact Bill Daughaday and "Chief" Boston were able to throw their opponents. Throughout, the matches were closely contested, and three of them extended into overtime...
...only other veterans of varsity matches on the team are Richter and Gardiner, wrestling 136 and 175 respectively. Richter enters his match the decided underdog, because his opponent, Palmer, is one of the Bengal standouts. He and Froshay are the only veterans on the Princeton team...