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...course, stay in the public-eye?Atlee Pomerene of Ohio by being oil scandals lawyer (see p. 12); Elihu Root by continuing as a patriarch of the bar; Chauncey Depew by becoming a nonagenarian. Others become somewhat obscure. James Duval Phelan is an opulent San Francisco booster & developer. Magnus Johnson still farms the Minnesota dirt whence sprouted his short fame. Dr. Irwin France of Maryland travels and keeps up his interest in Guernsey cows. Truman Handy Newberry of Michigan keeps up his club memberships, helps direct banks, goes yachting. John Sharp Williams prunes the gardenias and oversees the cotton planting...
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...
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...
...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...