Word: tobeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probate office at Nashua, N.H.. the estate of the late Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey, who left no will...
...Hampshire Republicanism, aging (69) Robert William Upton, one.of the state's top trial lawyers. They were there to reveal what had been a closely kept secret: Gregg was appointing Concord's Upton to the U.S. Senate vacancy caused by the death of wrathful old Charles William Tobey (TIME...
...Tells the Truth." He never lost an election. For two of his six years in the state house of representatives, he was speaker; for both of his two years in the state senate, he was senate president. In 1930, when he was governor, Tobey uncovered a scandal (the widespread practice of corporal punishment) in a New Hampshire asylum for delinquent girls and deposed the institution's board chairman. In 1933 he went to Congress, moved up to the Senate in 1939. When Senator Tobey blocked the appointment of Oilman Edwin Pauley as Under Secretary of the Navy, Harry Truman...
Despite a cerebral hemorrhage two years ago, Tobey continued to scold and thunder for the ways of righteousness. Last week in his Senate office, just two days after his 73rd birthday, he collapsed with a heart attack. In the hospital a few hours later he died peacefully, in his sleep. "No man need fear God or the devil," he once said, "if he tells the truth...
Died. Charles William Tobey, 73, sharp-tongued, Bible-quoting G.O.P. Senator from New Hampshire since 1939; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...