Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, to the amplified tune of Goodnight, Irene, the blue station wagon blared its way around Chicago's South and Southwest Sides. At the giant Crane Co., Douglas shook hands with a group of independent union workers picketing the plant. He ate lunch with the firemen of Hook & Ladder Truck 41, to whom he admitted that he was feeling pretty stiff and sore. He had slipped and fallen that morning taking his bath. Spike pleaded with him to lie down and rest. The Senator napped for two ho.urs at the firehouse. Then he was off again with...
University of California issued their famous "sign or resign" ultimatum to the California faculty last winter (TIME, March 6 et seq.). This week, in a book review* in the New York Sunday Times, a cool and collected sifting of the question came from New York University's Sidney Hook, eminent philosopher and political liberal...
Philosopher Hook gave the regents low marks for imposing the oath in the first place. Moreover, in the course of the controversy, "an overwhelming majority" of the faculty had voted an anti-Communist manifesto of their own, i.e., that Communists, because of their commitments to the party, "are not acceptable as members of the faculty." When that happened, wrote Hook, the regents should have ditched the oath and "left to the faculty the enforcement of its standards of professional ethics." That, he thought, was the real California issue...
...Hook found many opponents of the oath, in their talk of academic freedom, just as much in "incredible confusion" as the regents...
...formed a partnership with a cousin who was in the shipping business in Denmark. The business flourished until World War II (Isbrandtsen became naturalized in 1936), but then their ships were taken over by the allied governments. After that, Isbrandtsen began to buy and charter ships on his own hook, and brought his two sons into business with him. Now he intends to go right on running his ships wherever he wants, although he realizes that this policy has made him unpopular. Says he: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days...