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...Congressmen filed hungrily into the ornate, high-ceilinged House restaurant one noonday last week, big pots of white-bean soup bubbled in the kitchen. White-bean soup has been a tradition on the House menu since the day, years ago, when mighty Speaker Joe Cannon thunderously decreed: "By God, we are going to have bean soup in here every day." Uncle Joe's daily lunch was bean soup and cornbread. Daily lunch of thousands of good men & true ever since has been bean soup and cornbread, with maybe a dash of ketchup...
...hands of the big clock pointed to 1. Suddenly the restaurant's colored waiters sidled towards the doors. Suddenly, as if by magic, they disappeared. Bean soup (15?) was on the menu, all right, but there would be no soup served that day. The waiters to the nation's Congressmen had gone on strike -the first strike in the Capitol's history...
Come & Get It. There are no less than 39 items on the Army's ration chart. Even the iron rations of 1942 (a can of pork & beans, a can of meat and vegetable hash, a can of meat and vegetable stew, three cans of biscuit bread, enough soluble bean to make a pint of coffee, a square of chocolate candy) are a vast improvement over the "tinned willie" of World...
Something was shooting up. But what? It was not the original, homely bean plant which the General had nurtured. For that reason there was at the same time apparently a trend among some of the Committee's supporters to drop out quietly from the movement. Lessing Rosenwald had already resigned. Whether America First would gain or lose in strength remained to be seen. Last week FORTUNE'S survey reported a 2.3% decrease in national sentiment for bucking Hitler at all costs...
...doubtful whether the General realized what had happened as he surveyed his America First garden last week. While he and his advisers had been busily cultivating the young bean shoots of isolationism, the weeds had got out of hand, and threatened to choke the garden-Jew-haters, Roosevelt-haters, England-haters, Coughlinites, politicians, demagogues. The General's followers had run away with their leader. The General's firm, meaty, businesslike points (an impractical partnership . . . a squandering of wealth . . . Hitler will die some day) were still as respectably moot as ever. But the General's beans were being...