Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embargo. The President has chosen to open the ports of the U.S to armed merchantmen of belligerent powers, while closing them to submarines. He has also given way drastically to the shipping lobby by leaving Spain and Portugal open to our ships. Finally, the Administration refused to pass the Tobey Amendment, which would have caused adoption of "cash-and-carry" several weeks ago, and thus would have prevented the dangerous City of Flint" affair...
First the Senate got rid of a move to split the Pittman bill in two, divorcing the controversial arms-embargo section from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately legislated out of combat areas abroad, the effect would have been to put the weight of debate solely on the Isolationist issue: sale of arms to belligerents...
Jimmy Byrnes whipped 65 votes out of the cloakrooms; Bennett Clark mustered only 26. Shouted Tobey as he and the Isolationists were flattened: "You can't lick a steam-roller...
...When the U. S. Senate convened last week, New Hampshire's Republican Tobey asked consent to have Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent radio plea for isolated neutrality printed in the Congressional Record. Because Congress had yet to hear Franklin Roosevelt on active neutrality (see p. 11), Senator Tobey had to wait, finally got Charles Lindbergh into the Record two pages ahead of the President...
...other rearmament jokers flustered the War Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...