Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressional mail grew heavy and hot. Members began to dodge and weasel. Some talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...
...participating members of the future world will be, and the relations between these powers during the war is determining the practical basis of any form of world cooperation. Here is where our ideas of the future can and should play an important part; here is where we can hook up our very general ideals with the actual facts of the situation; and here is where we are being short-sighted...
Censor Price's own A.P. ran into a concrete censorship problem last week. While other newspapers and wire services vainly besought Navy for confirmation of the torpedoing of a second ship off New York last week, A.P. on its own hook got confirmation from the Coast Guard (now part of the Navy), released the story despite Navy's official declaration that it was "impossible to confirm" the news. Rival newsmen vainly redoubled their frantic appeals for official confirmation. Next day Navy confirmed the sinking, apologized for its "confusion...
Governor Arthur H. James of Pennsylvania will give up his hightop, hook-lace shoes, to conserve leather...
...Rubber Executive Cyrus Ching and Shipping Tycoon Roger Lapham (both of the National Defense Mediation Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr. (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.); Donald Comer (Avondale Mills); Robert M. Gaylord (Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.); Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp.); Charles Hook (American Rolling Mill Co.); Thomas R. Jones (American Type Founders, Inc.); Reuben Robertson (Champion Fiber...