Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without Senators Saltonstall and Tobey, President Conant's hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee might have turned into a free-for-all. On one hand were witnesses who played with Conant's speeches and articles as though they were so much taffy, perfect for twisting into any shape which appealed to them. As for many of the committee members, the hearing was largely a vehicle for getting platitudes on the record...
Senator Charles W. Tobey (R.N.H.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee studying the choice, said he considered any opposition to the appointments as "asinine...
...letter to the Christian Science Monitor, Roger Erust '03 answered an accusation by Senator Charles Tobey (R.N.H.) that the Roxbury Latin Trustees considered Conant an "unknown...
...real reason that Mr. Conant was not considered seriously as a candidate for headmaster," writes Erust, "was just the opposite of the one Senator Tobey gives namely, that he had already attained such eminence as a professor of Chemistry and chairman of Chemistry at Harvard as to make it certain that he would not consider an offer to become headmaster of a comparatively small boy's school...
...Senators Taft and Knowland and the rest of the Republican policy makers decided that "this was not the time" to revise the filibuster rule. Aside from independent Morse of Oregon, only five Republicans broke ranks: Ives of New York, Duff of Pennsylvania, Tobey of New Hampshire, Hendricksen of New Jersey, and Governor Warren's replacement for Nixon, Kuchel of California...