Word: tobeys
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...presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland's judicial-mannered Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt and New Hampshire's pious old Charles W. Tobey, no lawyer, who glared with Yankee outrage at uneasy officials and sullen thugs, burst out at intervals to denounce the sinners, once with such eloquence that he moved himself to tears...
Nobody has been very surprised by the testimony of gamblers and gangsters before the Kefauver Committee, nobody except Senator Tobey, Governor Dewey, and Mayor Impellitteri...
...Senator Tobey may be excused for his ignorance, because he is from New Hampshire, which has only one large race track. But Governor Dewey and Mayor Impellitteri are familiar with politics in the biggest city of them all. And not until the Kefauver Committee put the facts on the record did either of them see fit to try to mount the White Charger of Clean Government. Now they are vowing to dismiss all political appointees who are familiar with gangsters...
...return for a fee of $10,000 cash-plus $7,500 a year for the next ten years. Young denied the story, said it was Bohannon who had talked about a big fee, and declared that he hadn't even been tempted. New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey intervened...
...Then you have broken your oath of office," cried Tobey incredulously...