Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of campaigning, hymn-singing, Bible-quoting Charles William Tobey had won more public offices-including the governorship and a seat in the U.S. Senate-than anyone in New Hampshire; he had never been beaten. Last week for the first time, aging (70) Senator Tobey was running hard. He was up against a hard-swinging, 35-year-old war veteran named S. Wesley Powell...
...Powell, an aerial gunner who was wounded seriously by German flak in World War II, came back home to serve as $10,000-a-year aide to New Hampshire's senior Senator, Styles Bridges, who is no friend of Tobey's. Last November, Republican Powell announced he was out to beat Tobey. He set up campaign headquarters in the pantry of his Hampton Falls home. He had the encouragement and the help of Styles Bridges' compact New Hampshire political organization...
...conscience. She had also talked things over with fellow members of a small group of Republican progressives in the Senate, and found that they agreed with her. She drafted what she called a "Declaration of Conscience," and got them to sign it with her-New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's Aiken, Oregon's Morse, New York's Ives, Minnesota's Thye, New Jersey's Hendrickson. Thus armed she took the floor to make her case...
Cried Senator Tobey: ". . . In your soul don't you think this is a hellish business that isn't worthy...
...room and conferred a minute with a fellow as bulky as himself; it was his brother Leonard. Then Erickson answered, apologizing for "losing my memory-I was a little nervous." The brother, it turned out, was paid $20,000 a year. "Just to deposit money in the bank?" asked Tobey incredulously. "That's right," said Gambler Erickson...