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...insurgent Republican and thrice elected him governor. In 1908 when the "Iowa idea" for flexible tariff legislation was rampant, Albert B. Cummins strode into the U. S. Senate along with many another radical. This Senator from Iowa was no radical at heart, no Smith Wildman Brookhart, no Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson. He soon was known for what he was-efficient, profoundly informed, hard-working legislator, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, co-author of Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, later Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. This year he has been conspicuous as staunch backer of the Coolidge Administration on every issue...
...Magnavox") Johnson, Farmer-Laborite, and a blind man with a German name, U. S. Congressman Thomas D. Schall, Republican nominee. Hot and close was their race...
...Magnavox Johnson, from the floor of the Senate...
...Washington capers of "Magnavox" have so far resulted in the introduction of 13 bills. Not one of them relates to the farmers whose salvation he proposed to achieve.' Eight of them are for personal claims or pensions for voters in his state. Typical of the others is his bill to abolish capital punishment in the District of Columbia...
...Senator "Magnavox" Johnson of Minnesota traveled to Manhattan speak to a mass meeting against a local bill proposed to purify all literature circulating in New York State. Said he: "It doesn't hurt any one when a man tells the truth, and for that reason I am against the clean books bill. . . . Speaking of attempts at censorship, Senator Heflin of Alabama was recently very much annoyed when those listening to a speech he was making went outside to see an airplane flying above the Capitol. He forthwith proposed a bill making it illegal to fly within 6,000 feet...