Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resolutely across the Pacific last month plowed the Dollar liner President Cleveland, bearing as its proudest passenger tall, straight, handsome Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. With his beauteous blonde wife Ruth, he was traveling on the highest executive mission of his Cabinet career. When the Hurleys reached Tokyo. U. S. Ambassador Forbes entertained them Japanese style. They took off their shoes and sat on the floor. Between courses they watched geisha girls dance. While Mrs. Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite...
...would soon be free. They had marched until their feet ached. The)' had cheered until they were hoarse. They had listened to harangues until their ears rang. They had been inspected by junketing U. S. Senators and Representatives until they passed from self-consciousness to selfimportance. But Secretary Hurley's visit, they were assured, was different from all these, because no less a person than President Hoover had dispatched his War Chief to their islands as the eyes & ears of the White House, to see, hear, learn and know all. Upon his report about them, they were told...
...crowd Secretary Hurley delivered a message, explained his mission: "I bring! you the greetings and best wishes of the President of the United States. ... By his direction I have come here to secure first-hand information concerning the political, educational, social and economic conditions which now prevail in the islands. ... I shall converse with the people themselves. . . . On the facts established the Administration will base its future policy...
Seizing the opportunity to guy the Army for what he considered its unsuccessful invasion of the Navy's domain, Assistant Secretary of the Navy David Sinton Ingalls in charge of aeronautics wrote and published a playful letter to Secretary of War Hurley who at the moment, as Mr. Ingalls well knew, was on the Pacific Manila-bound. "Dear Pat," said the letter, "It will give me and the entire Navy Department the very greatest pleasure to place at the disposal of the Army Air Corps a few of the naval patrol flying boats, for your brother service has viewed...
General O'Duffy was at home in the North. He was born in County Monaghan. In 1919 between guerilla skirmishes with the British, he varied his military career with the prosaic duties of an auctioneer and valuator. More important, he can handle a hurley with the best of the Republican Army. Hurlers consider his monograph, "The Ethics of Hurling," a standard authority...