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...Senators who sat in the last session of Congress the one least liked by his colleagues was undoubtedly the late Huey Long. Had a secret vote for that distinction been taken, a runner-up to the Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...
Residents of Berwyn Heights, Md., neighbors of Minnesota's Senator Thomas David Schall, have started recently at the sight of the blind Senator trotting about his farm on horseback. No novice, Senator Schall in his youth was a constant rider. One day in 1907 he leaned over a cigar lighter which flared up in his eyes, blinded him, ended his riding. Six weeks ago. still totally blind, he mounted his first horse in 28 years, found he could ride without difficulty. Scorning help, the strongwilled, strong-tongued Senator allowed companions only to call "To the right...
...were in order. His death had certainly put an end to any radical independent Democratic threat to split the party in 1936.** His Louisiana followers had enough to keep them busy at home. Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota is going to test his radicalism by opposing Senator Thomas D. Schall for his seat. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, whose abuse of President Roosevelt and the New Deal has been second only to that of the Kingfish, has Long's mannerisms but not Long's mind...
Thus last week the status and spirit of the New Deal relief colony in Alaska's Matanuska Valley was reported by colonists' telegrams to President Roosevelt, Relief Administrator Hopkins, Senators Couzens, La Follette and Schall, Governor...
...Chicago Bar Association prides itself on being nonpartisan in matters political. Last week it had invited Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's blind Senator, bitterest enemy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, to address it at luncheon. Senator Schall launched into his favorite tirade against Roosevelt: the dictator, who has crushed free speech, free press, free broadcasting. He told how recently, after he had made a similar speech, a toast to the President had been proposed. Turning his sightless eyes on his lawyer listeners he cried...