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There are 69 Democrats, only 22 Republicans in the present Senate. The pot of dreams at the end of the Republican rainbow was 1) to whittle down the Democratic majority this year, 2) whittle some more in 1938, 3) win a majority in 1940. Day after election it appeared that instead of whittling down the Democratic majority, the next Senate would have 73 Democrats, only 19 Republicans, one ex-Republican, two Farmer-Laborites, one Progressive...
Time hangs lightly on the Vagabond's hands. It dangles there, a flimsy rainbow bubble, catches the sun a moment and disappears...
...above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind...
FRAYSER HINTON Former Capt. 42nd (Rainbow) Division Memphis, Tenn...
...frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs." A firm believer in music as a religious force, Homer Rodeheaver lined up a number of young people in Korea, Japan and the Philippines in 1929, staked them to musical education in the U. S. One of these, a Korean who fortnight ago received a doctor's degree...