Word: hook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry D. & Jonathan M. Parmenler:--to Fred Benyamin '41, of Columbia, South Carolina; Maurice S. Cohen '41, of Winthrop. Sanford L. Gray '41, Cleveland, Lester J. Bonig '41, of New York; Albert C. Howell '41, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey; George Minkin '41, of New Bedford; Henry D. Oyen '41, of New York; and Edward L. Rogers '41, of Suffield, Connecticut...
...last, however, the shark was caught, but as it was being hauled in, the fishermen were shocked speechless with surprise -for at the end of the hook was not a shark, but a Lagosian woman whose long, wet hair was matted about her face. She was a fish hooks seller in the village . . . and part of her body was sharklike, the other part human...
When Charley Hook succeeded George Verity as president in 1930, he had ample opportunity to test his theories of an "open-book" business policy. Last month his success in this line won him the job of president of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...Chairman Colby Chester, who is largely responsible for converting N. A. M. to a policy conciliatory toward the Roosevelt Administration, remains its guiding spirit as chairman of the executive committee, but on the president falls most of the active N. A. M. work. As part of it, President Hook last week made a speech in Pittsburgh. Said he: "To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot. . . . The business future is currently brighter than for months because there is on the part of Congress a more sympathetic attitude toward business...
...days after Steelman Hook's remarks came an event which, on the surface, seemed to indicate a more sympathetic attitude of business toward Congress. This was a $4-a-ton cut in the price of cold rolled steel sheets, on the same day that U. S. Steel Corp. signed a new contract with Labor maintaining wages at the same level as before Only last month President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of U. S. Steel wrote the Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment & Relief that "it is clear that prices cannot be reduced without corresponding reduction in costs, of which wages...