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...before the Senate this week is another defense appropriation bill. The Army & Navy, with more & more mouths to feed, want to use part of their $4,389,000,000 to buy canned corned beef from Argentina. But they will not be allowed to -unless the Senate knocks out an amendment which persistently appears in such bills as they come from the House...
...last week, up before the Senate came an amendment to the Navy appropriation bill (already passed by the House) which was after Mr. Wallace's own heart: to permit the U. S. Navy to buy canned beef from South America. At the moment the amendment was introduced, Mr. Wallace was eating duck with some Senator guests in a Senate dining room. He has been making it a dutiful point to lunch with groups of Senators in order to get acquainted. His guests excused themselves to step into the chamber and vote. There seemed little need for Mr. Wallace...
...guests drifted back, reported that the vote seemed to be going for South American beef. Mr. Wallace continued to chew his duck complacently...
...with concern over the threat to Chile's long coast line, if the U. S. should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they learned that in Washington the House Appropriations Committee had refused to buy Argentine corned beef for the Navy. Only opposition to the Act itself came from the Nazi organs, El Pampero and Crisol. Croaked Crisol: "The Colossus from the North...
...story obliges the handsomely dressed Fonda to sprawl headlong twice over Miss Stanwyck's legs, tumble across a sofa and land with his face in a plate of hors d'oeuvres, take a drenching of hot coffee, receive a mess of roast beef and gravy in his lap, endure numerous other accidents. They are all funny. More importantly, Stanwyck and Fonda play throughout with a comic agility matching Sturges' frothy script...