Word: tobey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Charles W. Tobey momentarily turned from criminals to cast a skeptical glance at the Government's stock of gold, wanted to know how much there was and if anyone kept a weight check to see that none was stolen. The Senator, replied the Treasury Department pleasantly, could have "a personal tour" of Fort Knox any time he wished...
Ambassador William O'Dwyer, the politics-toughened ex-mayor of New York, even tried to turn the tables on the committee. He implied that he had evidence linking pious Senator Tobey with tainted campaign money (TIME, March 26). "I have it in my pocket and I will show it only to Senator Tobey," he said darkly...
Cagily, Estes Kefauver called O'Dwyer's bluff, made him hand over the "evidence" and then read it into the record. It was just a perfunctory bread & butter note from Tobey to a legitimate campaign contributor. The Senator's inexhaustible supply of indignation and tears boiled over. "I have lived long years and God has been good to me," cried Tobey from behind the green eyeshade he had clamped on his long, gleaming forehead. "I am a poor man and always will be. But there is one thing I am. I am a free man . . ." Tobey wept...
...hearings set off unexpected tremors across the nation. Department stores, groceries, movies and even Manhattan taxis lost business. Local legislators, impressed by the ease with which Kefauver and Tobey had become household names, hoped to reap similar vote-getting benefits by making TV appearances themselves...
...there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions of us who heard Virginia Hill...