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While Senator O'Mahoney and his western colleagues are sputtering to the press for the benefit of friends back home, the State Department is quietly proceeding with its plan to "feed the navy on foreign beef." Argentina offers a product at 9 cents; American producers ask 23 cents; the navy begins to buy from Argentina. Obviously a subversive and un-American transaction. . . standard of living doomed . . . Japan; now Argentina. But more important than the patent stupidity involved in such typical protectionist reasoning is the fact that such Congressional utterances constitute destructive opposition to the far-reaching policy of Pan-Americanism...
...newest Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the President named Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, *63, of Richmond, Va., urbane careerman whose first consulate 29 years ago was in Zanzibar, and who since 1933 has been trying, as Ambassador, to keep Argentina friendly despite a U. S. embargo on Argentine beef...
...price of copper slumped from 18? to 8? a pound; U. S. wheat fell from $1.30 to 53? a bushel; cotton from 16? to 6? per Ib.; beef from...
Texas, with oil, beef, cotton and wool to sell, was not blind to the possible profits war would bring. With military aviation booming at San Antonio, Texas was well aware how near war might be. But let it be Europe's war, said Texas, "We can keep out of it . . . Roosevelt better watch his step." But Texas agreed with Franklin Roosevelt on getting ready...
...cartooning forebears. Hogarth set the pace for English caricaturists in the 18th Century, and his followers, Rowlandson, Gillray, the Cruikshanks et al., set the pace for the French. In their work the age of the first three King Georges and the Regency appears unmatched in history for sheer beef-eating, blowzy, bullyragging license. Famous caricatures in the show included Isaac Cruikshank's credited Belly Piece Shop in which various court ladies of marked posterior inflation are being fitted to boot with anterior pads labeled one, two, four, six and nine months...