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Senatorial cynics dryly agreed last week that the world was safe, because New Hampshire's Charles William Tobey had it on his shoulders again. Senator Tobey, a somewhat skinny Atlas, is a rumpled, furious man with a vivid imagination and a hound-keen nose for trouble-a word indissolubly connected in Mr. Tobey's mind with Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tobey's Nose | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Tobey's constant sniffing in the bushes for the Big Bad Roosevelt does not endear him to the Senate, which is a body of men who hate to keep jumping up all the time, and who prefer to take even their own wolf-halloos with plenty of salt, and maybe just a dash of bitters. Last week rancorous, cantankerous Mr. Tobey was out front again for his first real headlines since his passion for picayune causes led him to denounce the U.S. Census last year as regimentation. Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys. Quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tobey's Nose | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Plymouth is Tobey's motor court with connected series of apartments, equipped for cooking, and one-car garages. Opened late last summer, this is said to be the first establishment of the kind in this part of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...Tobey: "He's my son and secretary and he isn't Willie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Stentorian Dialogue | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Exeunt-Hague cackling, Tobey indignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Stentorian Dialogue | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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