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...local, under tough Business Agent Ed Rainbow, wants no women in its ranks. First it argued that shipyards were too hazardous for women. The companies promptly threw this argument down. Then Ed Rainbow protested that the shipyards had no ladies' rooms. Shipyard wags began quipping about "Rainbow Rooms.'' Last week 22 women bounced into the union hiring hall, yipping for work, determined not to take no for an answer. Ed Rainbow got rid of them this time by explaining that the union was holding a national referendum on admitting women members. But at week...
...James V. Bryant of the War Manpower Commission threatened to refer the quarrel right to Washington. Even the Treasury Department lent the women a helping hand: it offered shipyards 300 complete sets of washroom plumbing (scrapped from a hotel turned into a Treasury office building) for bigger and better Rainbow Rooms...
Said Alicia: "I know him perhaps better than most daughters know their fathers. We have hunted together and fished together. . . . I have seen him under all sorts of circumstances . . . when he joined up with the Rainbow Division in the last war although he was 38 years old with a wife and three children; when he came back from France in 1918 looking older and grimmer. . . . As long as I can remember he was carrying the torch for the U.S.A. . . . After the Japs bombed Hawaii . . . he tried to enlist but was told that he was too old. . . . It is true that...
...Philippines. There are flashes of young Douglas hurrying every day to meet his mother on West Point's Flirtation Walk or being helped by her to escape from the West Point hotel through a coal chute when he was caught out of bounds. There is MacArthur commanding the Rainbow Division in 1917, leading attacks in person. There is MacArthur in Washington obeying orders by clearing out the Bonus Marchers, but dropping in on their camp of an evening to swap talk with his old Rainbow men and give them money...
This is how Author Hersey introduces General MacArthur when Manila had reached the incredible brink of war: "He had been first in his class at West Point and First Captain of the class, too. He had been the first member of the Rainbow Division. He had been the first American Army officer ever to become a Field Marshal. He had been the first American to be a four-star General twice. . . . He had always done his job with a flourish and well. . . . He had been handsome, and divorced, and sometimes rather colorfully dressed, and always full of splendid rhetoric...