Word: schuetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs the best the party had? There was, for instance, John Taber of New York, due to head up Appropriations. Bull-tongued John Taber, blaring away in a speech on wage-hour amendments in 1940, had restored the hearing in the deaf ear of the late Congressman Leonard W. Schuetz of Illinois. Schuetz had been deaf since birth. The effect, Schuetz said at the time, made him dizzy. "I had spent thousands of dollars on that ear." But that was one of the few outstanding things John Taber had ever done in Congress...
Strong of mind and limb is John Taber, Republican Congressman from Auburn, N. Y. Tall, grey, fierce Mr. Taber bellowed so loud one afternoon last year that he jarred loose the stopped ear canals of Representative Leonard Schuetz of Illinois, restored Mr. Schuetz's hearing (TIME, May 20). On that day, as on many a day before and since, earnest, thrift-minded John Taber was snorting his wrath at Franklin Roosevelt, whom he always denounced as the wrong man to trust with a taxpayer's dollar. One day last week Republican Congressmen burst out of a party caucus...
...Schuetz (rhymes with toots), deaf in the left ear since birth, had spent thousands of dollars on ear specialists...
Taber's yell detonated through the loudspeaker, something seemed to give way in Mr. Schuetz's skull. Shaking like a third-day drunk, he staggered to the cloakroom, slumped to a couch. "I thought I would go goofy," said Mr. Schuetz simply...
...Schuetz thought he had been hit in an air raid and left for dead. Then he realized he could hear-for the first time in his life with the left ear; better than before with the right. Last week, to the confusion of medicos, Mr. Schuetz's hearing was excellent, and kindly Stentor Taber had new proof that it did some good to shout down the New Deal...