Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, Congressman Frank Hook of Michigan had risen in the House to protest the continuation of the Dies Committee. As evidence that the Dies Committee was unworthy of further existence, he produced a batch of letters which he entered in the Congressional Record. The letters were supposedly written by William Dudley Pelley, whereabouts now unknown, the leader of a Fascist organization, The Silvershirt Legion of America. The letters showed, said Hook, a friendship between Pelley and Chairman Martin Dies which insured the Silvershirts, the Christian Front and other Fascist groups against investigation by the Committee. David Mayne, Pelley...
Chairman Dies lay ill in Texas, but his Committee's answer was to subpoena Mayne. Shortly it announced that the letters were forgeries, that Mayne had admitted writing them himself. How did they come into the hands of Congressman Hook? Few days later up popped three answerers, ready & willing to explain: wealthy Gardner Jackson, well known in Washington as an incorrigible crusader for many a liberal cause, Harold Weisberg, his collaborator on a forthcoming book about the Dies Committee, and a newspaperman named John Henshaw. Henshaw had told Weisberg about the Mayne letters, Weisberg had told Jackson. Jackson, indignantly...
London did not answer promptly enough to suit the Japanese. What Sir Robert said on his own hook only made them angrier. There was nothing extraordinary, he pointed out, about the boarding. In World War I, Allied cruisers boarded 64 neutral vessels and took off 3,500 subjects of the Central Powers. Britain certainly intended no affront to the Japanese in this case, he said - no greater affront, in any event, than the Japanese had intended in boarding over 191 British ships in China seas since...
Appearing later before the House Rules Committee, Hook declared: "The picture I have painted ... is clearly one that puts Dies in active association with a prominent collaborator of the Christian Front." Saying he did not have time for lengthy remarks, Hook inserted a statement in the Congressional Record. Despite his charges, the House Rules Committee passed a resolution approving continuation of the Dies Committee for another year, sent it to the floor for a vote...
...TIME, Jan. 22). Detroit's radiorating Father Charles E. Coughlin loudly and specifically disavowed the Christian Front to which the captives belonged. The press dug up additional detail, indicating that the captive Christian Fronters were "awful" shots and mere blustering braggarts. Michigan's squat, swart Congressman Frank Hook tried to hook Red-daubing Martin Dies to people who were friendly to the Front, failed to excite a Congress in mourning for veteran Senator Borah (see above...