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...party, therefore ideas must make it tick instead of money; 3) If the New Deal is to survive under Franklin Roosevelt or anyone else, as a Liberal party beyond 1940, its ideas must be churned into the local electorates, right down into the precincts whence Congressional and Presidential majorities sprout; 4) Any political baron who will not join in the churning process had best be read out of the new party at once, even if that means local defeats this year. For 1940 will be a far more important, national year and if beginnings, however brutal, are made...
...officers, all pistol-toters, organized the peons into ejidols (collective farms), financed by the State's especially created National Bank for Ejidol Credit. Scarcity of water has always been the curse of Mexico, and the State began to erect numerous irrigation dams and supplementary public works which today sprout half-completed in all parts of Mexico. Education was stressed to teach peons, accustomed for centuries to kiss the hand of local Mexican bigwigs, to become upstanding armed collectivists...
...social and economic conditions, decided that his poetry had better get busy and do something about them. To carry out this decision, which seemed to necessitate writing poems about matters of immediate popular concern, Poet MacLeish began to top-work his poetry on to popular art forms. First sizable sprout to grow from this top-working was Panic (1935), a graft of lyric poetry on the drama. This verse-play depicted a scene from the currently-expected crack-up of what Communists call Capitalism, capitalists call civilization. Most of those who saw Panic agreed that it was more theatrics than...
...littermates Dora, Mora and Maro. Owner Ellis bred only for utility until two years ago. has since had success on the bench with dogs bred for both use and beauty. Sturdy Max was sturdy. Daro has been trained by Handler Charles Palmer to fetch pheasants as well as sprout feathers...
...concentration to measure its molecular weight. Three years later Kögl and his associates identified an auxin in urine, isolated it in pure form. This is called Auxin A. In 1934 the Utrecht researchers followed with Auxin B and heteroauxin. Heteroauxin has the astonishing effect of making roots sprout from the stem in shaggy masses like beards. It also produces elongation and swelling in stems, stimulates normal root formation, inhibits buds...