Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming...
Such last week was the promotion of Patrick Jay Hurley from the sub-Cabinet to the Cabinet, to replace Iowa's James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier...
Friday is the prime day of the Hurley week. He was born on Friday in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He denies having Indian blood.* At 11 he was driving "Kicking Pete," a mule, in shaft 6 of the Atoka Coal & Mining Co. At 15 he was punching cows on "Lazy S" ranch and feeling aggrieved that Theodore Roosevelt had rejected him as a rough rider. At 19 he was a captain of the Indian Territorial Militia warring against Chief Crazy Snake. On a Friday he was graduated from law school, and on a Friday became a practicing attorney...
...occasion, near the front, Major Hurley failed to salute General Pershing. The A. E. F. commander ordered him back, berated him. Six years later Mr. Hurley, civilian, burst jovially in upon General Pershing in his Washington office, defied being made to salute again. Gen eral Pershing was amused...
...Assistant Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, now the department's acting head reported that a quarter-billion dollars was needed to stock the Army with raw materials, unproduced in the U. S., for war-time uses...