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...investigating committee. No Senatorial vote authorized it. Set up by Isolationist Senator Wheeler, in his capacity as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, it held hearings supposedly to determine whether an investigation should be made. Stuffed with diehard Isolationists-Clark of Idaho, Bone of Washington (absent because of illness), Tobey of New Hampshire, Brooks of Illinois-it had only one Administration supporter. He was Ernest McFarland, 6-ft. ex-judge of Florence, Ariz., who had won a surprise victory over Senator Ashurst...
Married. Francelia Tobey, daughter of isolationist Senator Charles William Tobey of New Hampshire; and Dr. Edward Ten Eyck Munson of Rochester, N.Y.; in Temple...
...line-up at the hearings is somewhat confusing. Supporting FCC are Senators Wheeler and Tobey, who have no use for Franklin Roosevelt; opposing it is Senator White, a Roosevelt supporter on foreign policy, who wrote the resolution calling for an investigation of the Commission's rulings. Firm in its support of FCC is the No. 3 network, Mutual, which numbers among its big shots hard-bitten Bertie McCormick and his anti-Administration Chicago Tribune...
...Congress the fight over the Neutrality Act, which keeps U.S. ships from exercising freedom of the seas, was already coming to a head. A poll of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee showed that 13 favored repeal, ten were opposed-the same division as in the vote on the Tobey convoy resolution, which would reassert Freedom of the Seas by force. (In one month's time, the Gallup Poll reported, sentiment in favor of convoys jumped from...
Sirs: Although I should like to congratulate you on reaching a new low in prejudiced reporting in your anti-Tobey article [New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey is hotly anti-convoy -TIME, April 28], I am effectively restrained by the unhappy memory of a succession of your articles, each of which reached at a particular time...