Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Charles Ruffin Hook of American Rolling Mill Co. still has the "little black book" in which he budgeted his $2 weekly salary as an office boy for Cincinnati Rolling Mill & Tin Plate Co. in 1898. Armco's Mr. Hook also still has the conviction he developed while working up through the steel industry-that the No. 1 Big Business problem is its relations with employes and public. In 1911 Armco's General Superintendent Hook married President George Verity's daughter, Leah...
Last year's show was "Come Across." Many of the members of the cast are in college this year. One of the songs from "Come Across" by Camman Newberry '37, called "Someday," was played on a national radio hook-up by Hal Kemp and was something of a commercial success...
...conference report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...
...Octopus (First National). Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins as a pair of dimwit sleuths come to death-grips in a lighthouse with an underworld menace known as The Octopus. Lost documents, a character using a hook instead of a hand, secret stairways, octopus tentacles and poison gas are handled in pseudo-mysterious manner, sometimes reminiscent of George M. Cohan's famed burlesque, The Tavern, sometimes just good-natured hokum...
...question "Resolved, That Congress should adopt the Australian system of compulsory arbitration" was debated before a studio audience over station WAAB and a coast-to-coast Mutual Broadcasting hook...