Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hurley: I'm not making any personal implications. The bill is based on fear...
Secretary Hurley (shouting): No, I don't- Senator Hawes (also shouting): You- you-there's not a line in the bill that justifies that statement...
Secretary Hurley: You can't give the Philippine people their independence at 2 o'clock on a specific day. This Hawes-Cutting bill attempts to tear down in five years all the United States has built up in 20. It is a cowardly bill...
Secretary Hurley: I mean it hasn't one element of courage. It's neither fish nor fowl...
...Hawes, 62-year-old St. Louis lawyer, scion of an old Southern family, who is the chief agitator for freeing the Filipinos. Last summer he traveled to Manila, stirred the islands' little brown men to wild excitement. Standing before him, tall, handsome, was Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, 49-, onetime capitalist of Tulsa and fighting son of a poor immigrant Irishman. To counteract the Hawes agitation President Hoover sent Secretary Hurley to the Philippines last autumn. He left Washington determined that the U. S. should hold on to its Pacific possession. He returned with the same fixed idea...