Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt seized his new issue, he was flying off at no radical tangent. He had the conservative precedent of Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, all of whom piously urged that the profits be taken out of war. A War Policies Commission headed by Republican Secretary of War Hurley drafted such a plan (TIME, May 25, 1931). It called for freezing prices during war and establishing taxes that would take 95% of any man's or corporation's war profits in excess of his average for the previous three years. It also called for drafting all man power?which...
...last week's was designed to be different. When President Roosevelt rose to address the opening session he found himself speaking not only to an audience of Democratic prosecutors, police chiefs and social workers, but to such tail-coated Republicans as onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Like other Presidents before him, Mr. Roosevelt cried for national cooperation in a national war against the underworld, declared: "Crime is a symptom of social disorder. Widespread increase in capacity to substitute order for disorder is the remedy...
...dope dealers and addicts, proposed special wards in county sanatoriums to cure criminal and noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced the exploitation of ball games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such...
...during the War Major Patrick Jay Hurley jumped into a German trench with a raiding party, beat down the defenders in a battle of bayonets. A wounded German soldier named M. Struver seized a hand grenade, threw it at Raider Hurley, wounded...
Last week onetime Secretary of War Hurley was flying from Los Angeles to Tulsa. At Phoenix, Ariz., he looked up, saw Herr Struver, attache of the German Embassy at Washington, step aboard. Foes Hurley & Struver breakfasted together...