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When blind Senator Thomas D. Schall goes home to Minnesota he will feel and hear a disturbance in the political air. Malignant Minnesotans, particularly friends of Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson, whom Mr. Schall defeated in 1924, are saying that bootleggers contributed to Mr. Schall's campaign fund. Such charges being "a dirty mess on the doorstep of the state," the State Senate last week voted, 54 to 1, to conduct an investigation. It matters not that the U. S. Senate looked into Mr. Schall's election last spring (TiME, June 28) and found it pure enough to allow...
...early subscribers to your magazine. I came to feel it was propaganda from a certain attitude; and disliked it. I remember writing to you my objections to the ungentlemanly way you had of referring to Senator Johnson of, Minnesota as "Magnavox" thus ridiculing his baptismal name, one of the holiest of any man's possessions...
...Magnavox" stated a fact: the onetime Senator had a big voice. - ED. Lacks...
Sensitive inhabitants of the State of Minnesota shuddered last week. Already their habitat had been flayed before the nation's eyes in the novels of crusty Sinclair Lewis. Already they had been represented in the U. S. Senate by Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson. And now Minnesota was in a fair way to become another "monkey state" like Tennessee. The legislature had convened and one of the first bills to come up was one prohibiting the teaching of Evolution in Minnesota public schools...
...they twitted Senator Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson about his Swedish accent; jibed at the silence of President Coolidge; had a bogus official with much chin foliage sing...