Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speechmaker, in the House, he was not influential in legislative matters, made no great record. His usual seat was in the front row of the House where he sat with his cane between his knees and a large brass spittoon at his feet, into which he would spittoo with blind but unfailing accuracy. He did not mind when guides pointed him out to tourists as "the only blind Congressman...
...defeated Senator Magnus Johnson, stentorian Farmer-Laborite for a Senate seat. Johnson lifted his enormous voice to charge that Schall had been elected by fraud, that 'leggers had financed his campaign. The Senate investigated, found Schall elected. He proclaimed: ''Enemies referred to me as a damned blind bastard, not because I am blind but because my conscience sees. . . . Since I was a little boy I have earned my own living. I am a self-made man. It may be a poor...
...famed legislation bears his name. His distinction, if any, is that he is blind and also a Senator. He publicizes his affliction, makes a great display of his police dog, Lux, which guides him about the streets. He tells everybody: ''I see more with my soul than other men do with their eyes...
With an alert memory he prepares his speeches with his wife, delivers them on the Senate floor with slashing vigor. His oratory is spoiled by a crudity of voice and diction. He does not often enter rough-&-tumble Senate debate. Unlike blind Georges Scapini of the French Chamber of Deputies (TIME, April 7) he has never been known to sway his colleagues at any critical time or on a matter of great moment...
Impartial observers rate him thus: a self-made man, he is below the Senate average in legislative ability and leadership. He is chiefly remarkable because he, a blind man, has come as far as he has in politics. He would be given more credit for this success if he did not overpublicize his affliction. His support of farm measures has been routine and unoriginal. The persistence with which he tries to personify "common folks," his loud and unreasoned advocacy of their cause, make him dull and unattractive to his better-bred, more intelligent colleagues. His term expires March...