Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...economy bill was a consolidation of the Army & Navy into a Department of National Defense which was supposed to save at least $50,000,000 per year. By a vote of 153-to-135 the House rejected such a merger, much to the satisfaction of President Hoover and Secretaries Hurley and Adams. Other things the House did pleasing to the President were to provide for consolidation of public works activities and to authorize the White House to merge overlapping departmental agencies...
...this task Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley in Chicago appointed as receivers: 1) Edward Nash Hurley, politico-businessman who once headed the U. S. Shipping Board and last month procured both Republican and Democratic conventions for Chicago; 2) Charles Alexander McCulloch, who recently bolstered the business of the late John R. Thompson one-arm-chair cafeterias; 3) Samuel Insull. When an. objection against Mr. Insull's appointment was made, Judge Lindley exclaimed: "This company is Samuel Insull's own child. His appointment is not improper because if he were excluded the company would miss the benefit...
...Chicago to make a St. Patrick's Day speech Secretary of War Hurley, talking privately to friends, was overheard by a newsman to say: "I believe the national convention will adopt a more liberal stand on Prohibition. A great many people are going to look for Wet candidates in November. Eventually I think the Prohibition question will be settled on the basis of State's rights." Back in Washington where Dry leaders were shocked and hurt by his words, Secretary Hurley hastened to explain: "When I want to speak in quotation on Prohibition, the words will be mine...
...Fresh opposition was heard to the renomination of Vice President Curtis, a Dry of Dry Kansas. Mentioned for his place on the ticket were such non-Drys as Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Secretary of War Hurley, Philippine Governor Theodore Roosevelt...