Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until that last hour, the audience had begun to worry. Would the good fellows from the sticks ever really show up all those tough, wily city slickers in time for a smash ending? Even the Senators themselves-Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey, Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt -had seemed a little unsure...
...testimony to the state liquor authority in 1947, admitting he had bootlegged from 1923 to 1926. Said Costello sulkily: "I didn't sell no liquor prior to '25. I might have expressed it the wrong way . . . But now, to my recollection, thinking it over . . ." Observed Senator Tobey: "Is not the man who made the false affidavit susceptible to deportation?" Costello winced, and his voice got suddenly hoarser. Said Tobey: "I will talk to you later...
Spotlight on Saratoga Springs. While Costello considered the consequences of his walkout, the committee turned its spotlight briefly on Saratoga Springs, just 30 miles from Governor Tom Dewey's capital at Albany. Saratoga Detective Walter Ahearn gulped, squirmed, and like to have swallowed his gum under Senator Tobey's outraged questioning, as he admitted that he regularly escorted the night's cash from the downtown bank to two gambling clubs. He got $10 a day for this service, he said, from the Piping Rock Club (where Costello used to own a piece) and $50 a week from...
Superintendent of State Police John A. Gafmey admitted that he had bottled up a report on Saratoga's wide-open gambling, but pleaded it was contrary to policy to take action in cities. Tobey exploded like a rusty pinwheel. "You did nothing. You were a cipher, a zero!" he roared. "If I were the governor of this state, I would give you just five minutes to get out of the place or I would kick you out." Mumbled Gaffney humbly: "I am glad you aren't the governor...
...Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles Tobey...