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Whether the New Deal and its farmer friends would long be satisfied with such roundabout methods remained a prime question. Red-hot for revival of the AAAct, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, is the New Deal's most potent rural friend, the American Farm Bureau Federation. To its convention in Pasadena last week, Secretary Wallace declared: "Good as [the AAAct] was, we want to see it improved upon. A better program can and will be built...
...which encases the heart, and with a burr abraded a raw spot on the beating heart. Against that raw spot he placed the raw end of the pectoral muscle. Within a short time blood vessels grew out of the muscle and into the heart, thus supplying blood by a roundabout channel from the aorta across the chest and into the side of the heart...
Last week Dr. Beck promised to cut down his 50% operative mortality. He has also developed roundabout circulation in a man's heart by putting some pulverized beef bone in the pericardial cavity. This irritated the pericardium, caused it to cleave to the heart muscle. The blood vessels, which are numerous in the peri cardium, then sent branches into the heart, thus making a graft of the pectoral muscle unnecessary...
...romantic novels like The Path of the King, successfully flatters his middle-class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
...Hales Trophy is three and a half feet of solid silver, onyx and gilt, showing Victory, Neptune and Amphitrite upholding a globe and topped by a figure called Speed urging a liner into the face of a figure called The Force of the Atlantic. Roundabout were memorials to past record-holders and at the base was Harold Hales's name...