Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day at Cabinet meeting Secretary Hurley repeated what he had told the President. His colleagues, listening, agreed that immediate Philippine freedom was out of the question. Afterwards to the Press President Hoover made his first important statement on the Philippines. Excerpts...
...President nodded his head, already greying with other troubles. His War Secretary had brought him back the kind of report which squared with his own preconceptions of the Philippine problem. He instructed Mr. Hurley to put his findings into writing and submit them officially to the White House...
President Hoover got his "Eyes & Ears" back from Manila last week. Fresh from the Philippines, tall, square-shouldered Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley marched into the White House and began telling his chief what he had seen and heard on the other side of the world. Three months ago "Eyes & Ears" Hurley, under presidential orders, left Washington to assay the growing Philippine independence movement at its source (TIME, Aug. 10 et seq.). Now comfortably seated before the President, one leg cocked over the other, Secretary Hurley gave his impressions...
Republican vice-presidential racers spurted gently last week. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, flying back to his post in Porto Rico, stopped in Raleigh, N. C. long enough to confide to newsmen: "I expect Secretary of War Hurley to be the next Republican vice-presidential nominee...
Filipino politicos like to talk a lot. Faced by a man who says little, goes about patiently asking questions and scrupulously keeping his counsel, politicos are likely to become nervous and uneasy. Wherever Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley flew during the past three weeks in his effort to bring back to President Hoover the insular attitude toward independence, the wash of his plane's propeller, the dust kicked up by his horse or motor magnified itself into daily monsoons at Manila. The native House of Representatives began devoting a daily half-hour period to bombarding Secretary Hurley. Speaker...