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.
Therefore it was news that the smiling boyish face of the grandson of the late Henry Cabot Lodge will appear...
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