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Representative Matthew Anthony Dunn of Pennsylvania is the only blind man in the 75th U. S. Congress.* A onetime Pittsburgh newsdealer who says that he "would rather be a radical than a rubber stamp," curly-headed Democrat Dunn often rises, black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house (see cut, p. 8). Later he inserted in the Congressional Record his New Year's greeting to "all the people in the U. S. and throughout the world." One day last week, as the House was rapidly dispensing with its initial daily routine, Representative Dunn rose to ask unanimous consent to address the House for 20 seconds, on the advisability of a wages-&-hours bill.

Novel as this request was, it failed to shock his colleagues who knew that only a few days previous Matthew Anthony Dunn had introduced a bill, solemnly referred to the Ways & Means Committee, to appropriate money to be expended within ten years "to furnish employment and to end poverty in the United States and its possessions." His proposed appropriation: $65,000,000,000.

* There were two blind Senators until Minnesota's Thomas D. Schall was killed by an automobile in 1935. Oklahoma's Thomas P. Gore was defeated for his fifth term in 1936.

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