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Show WOULD UNIFY INSURANCE RULES Thomas Dillon O'Brien, stale insurance commissioner com-missioner for the state of .Minnesota, is the man who got behind the movement for uniform insurance in-surance rules and legislation throughout the country, and seems about to push that excellent idea through lo a successful interstate organization. organiza-tion. The idea that the various states should co-operate and adopt similar methods of dealing with the big insurance companies is one that appeals immediately to the intelligence and common com-mon sense of the public, so that the only question ques-tion that arises is as to why no such steps were ever taken before. Mr. O'Brien interested enough insurance commissioners from other states to make a national na-tional gathering feasible, and that meeting resulted re-sulted In a definite organized plan of action in the direction he has urged. A Democrat, O'Brien is one of Gov. Johnson's appointees in Minnesota, and has had the co-operation of the executive at all points. He is a lawyer by profession, and has been prominent in politics and in secret society circles for a number of years. |