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...Hampshire's bald, Scripture-spouting old Senator Charles W. Tobey found a perfect foil for his histrionic talent last week: Joseph P. Ryan, burly, grumpy "lifetime" president of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Ryan has not only been indicted for misusing $11,390 in union funds, but has been ordered, on pain of action by his peers in the Federation, to clean up his criminal-ridden waterfront locals in the Port of New York. Nevertheless, on appearing as a witness before Tobey and his waterfront investigation committee, Joe refused to admit that he was heavy with...
During the disagreement in March, Senator Tobey (R.-N.H.) claimed that Lincoln had cured his son of cancer...
...Temple, N.H., sturdily keeping up the folks-are-folks tradition, meeting-goers blocked three successive motions by the town's best-known son: Bible-quoting U.S. Senator Charles Tobey of TV fame. Only on his fourth motion, a proposal to spend $2,000 for snow removal in 1953, did the Senator win his fellow townsmen's ayes. He did not seem to mind being voted down; in his half-century of town meetings, he has grown used to such treatment...
During the late '30s, Root slacked off his buying. But after World War II, he started picking up samples of the new abstract art. He was one of the earliest to buy Theodoros Stamos' dreamily delicate work, Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases, and Mark Tobey's cool, almost Oriental calligraphy...
...Tobey: "That means he is starry-eyed...