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Alone but not aloof sat the blind Senator, Minnesota's Schall. His whole outlook is different, says his wife, now that he has a German police dog, "Lux," to lead...
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...
Said Senator Schall on hearing of the investigation: "It is a well laid political move, backed by the same big moneyed man, E. W. Backus of Minneapolis." Mr. Backus is a paper-lumber-bankerman...
...William Howard Taft, music critic and enthusiast; Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able hostess; Mrs. Thomas D. Schall, who is eyes and inspiration for her blind husband; Baroness de Cartier, doyenne of the Diplomatic Corps and most beautifully gowned woman in Washington...
...Senator Schall is a Minneapolitan from the city 15 miles from St. Paul, though some would put it that St. Paul is 15 miles from Minneapolis.* St. Paul has recently been congratulating itself upon its pre-eminence at Washington. Though both U. S. senators come indeed from Minneapolis, yet the St. Paul roster includes Secretary of State Kellogg, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds.† Solicitor General William D. Mitchell, Rush D. Simmons, in charge of Internal Revenue probes, and a number of others in lesser position."* Last week to this total was added another. Senator Schall, performing...