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Minnesota's Schall...
...such great interest are your reports on the records of Senators that the following TIME subscribers would appreciate your publishing the record of Thomas Schall of Minnesota...
...record of Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota is as follows...
...stepped into a tobacco store to buy and light a cigar. The store's owner had ignorantly connected a small 6-volt electric cigar-lighter to a high-powered city current. Schall put his face down to the lighter, gave it a flick. A terrific flash followed which permanently blinded both his eyes. With his wife's assistance he continued his law practise. She read him the cases; he argued them in court. In 1914 the backwash of the 1912 Bull Moose movement carried him to the House of Representatives as a Progressive...
...Coolidge landslide of 1924 he 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...