Word: tobey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Republican returns showed the expected pattern, with Senators Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire, Wayne Morse of Oregon, Frank Carison of Kansas, Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, Homer E. Capebart of Indiana, Henry C. Dworshak of Idaho, Milton R. Young of North Dakota and Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin retaining their seats...
...Hampshire, the Republicans' liberal, maverick, Bible-quoting Senator Charles W. Tobey, 70, over 35-year-old Candidate Wesley Powell, professed conservative, for the U.S. senatorial nomination, by 1,420 votes after a rugged and bitter campaign (TIME, Sept.11...
...Hampshire's picture-book mountain towns, farm communities, saltwater villages and the mill and pulp towns, Wes Powell gave free chicken dinners, systematically lambasted Tobey as "A Truman Republican" and "a darling of the C.I.O." "I am proud to be a conservative," said Powell...
...last week, goodhearted, excitable Charles Tobey, one of the Senate's most florid orators and unpredictable Republican mavericks, had become almost a stranger to the Senate chamber. He had spent a good part of the summer traveling up & down New Hampshire, spouting Latin quotations, leaning on the Good Book, explaining and apologizing to people who had been voting for him for decades. Apparently he had come to regard his independent-liberal reputation as something of a campaign liability. Sure he had fought for labor's rights, said Tobey, but Herbert Hoover was "my dear friend." Furthermore, Wisconsin...
...United States Senate today," he cried indignantly, "has fought the Truman crowd more than Charles W. Tobey . . . Down in Washington they have the damnedest, or damnable, crew of rascals." Next week, after Primary Day, Charles Tobey would learn whether the voters still wanted him to mingle again with all the damnable rascals...