Word: hooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silvershirt Legion of America. Last June, one of the Committee's investigators, Robert B. Barker, investigated his nation-saving activities and reported back that Pelley was just the Committee's dish. With its sizzling frying pan all ready for Pelley, the Committee tossed out a line and hook to catch him. But Mr. Pelley dived for deeper water, and disappeared...
...other fish were caught and dropped into the pan to splutter, the Committee's appetite for Mr. Pelley waned. Then, three weeks ago, Representative Frank Hook of Michigan inserted into the Congressional Record certain letters which seemed to show that Chairman Martin Dies was friendly to the Silvershirts. Alleged author of the letters: Leader Pelley. Congressman Hook, opposed to continuation of the Dies Committee, waved this evidence under the nose of Congress. Almost immediately the let ters were branded as fake. David Mayne, Pelley agent in Washington, admitted forging them. Thereupon Mr. Hook withdrew his charges, grudgingly apologized...
...week's end, Mr. Whitley's resignation lay in the office of the Dies Committee. Mr. Whitley himself was in Florida. Congressman Hook, not quite sure whether he was a hero or a fall guy, looked fiercely in all directions. Congress cleared its throat and felt in its pockets for a fresh cigar...
...John, Elaine said she must be going. "John." purred she, "it might be embarrassing to you and to me, too, if we happened to meet in public. You tell me where you're going after the show, and I'll go somewhere else." John took the whole hook & line...
...this turn of affairs the two motor-makers can mostly thank an aging (64), roly-poly, apple-cheeked Swedish immigrant named August Johnson. Hired six months ago to get Graham-Paige off the hook, Executive Vice President Johnson has done the job almost singlehanded. But in Detroit, where motor executives are as swank and streamlined as their product, he is definitely out of place. He works in a shabby office, wears unpressed clothes, speaks with a thick Swedish accent, puts on no more side than a country storekeeper...