Word: bose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps...
...sick man was Subhas Chander Bose, who last month scored a coup by engineering his own election to the Congress Presidency against Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's wishes. But what the Congress did last week made President Bose sicker than ever. Mahatma Gandhi's prestige, having been vastly enhanced by his victorious fast (TIME, March 13) against Rajkot's ruler, which ended last week with a glass of orange juice, the Congress Working Committee voted 218-10-133 to follow the Mahatma's moderate program in the future, rather than Bose's radical one, in their...
...days later the patient's brother took the platform. Breaking into tears, he recalled Brother Bose's 26 years of service in the Congress. Moved by this harangue, the delegates voted to reconsider their stand. Next morning they were still bickering when news came that the sick man was on his way from the hospital. Quickly, before President Bose could reach the camp, the Congress reaffirmed its stand-all this while Saint Gandhi was still miles away at Rajkot. Once again, by doing nothing, the Mahatma had won a big victory...
...first move was to warn the Thakore Saheb to reform his autocratic government. Ignored, the Saint sent his wife to start a civil disobedience campaign. She was thrown in jail. Meanwhile, the Indian National Congress voted down Gandhi's Rightist candidate for President, elected instead Subhas Chander Bose, a prominent Leftist. Last week Saint Gandhi decided to stop eating. Doctors warned against the fast, but he replied that he was not worth much in insurance. He quickly lost two pounds. His feet puffed up with dropsical swelling. Early this week he was in a desperate condition...
...strengthen it. The rank and file of Congress members were already clamoring to oust them. Many of the old Congress high command resigned because they wanted to avoid the ignominy of dismissal. The Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose...