Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
Secretary of War Hurley fancies Ireland...
Last week the War Policies Commission, chairmanned by dapper, pink-cheeked Secretary of War Hurley, concluded its public hearings, prepared to write a report for the President. Created by Congress, it had heard many a witness, some with ideas, more without, on how to take the profit out of war. No proposal had gained more attention or stirred more discussion than that of Bernard Mannes Baruch, Wartime head of the War Industries Board, for "freezing" all prices by presidential proclamation at the outbreak of War (TIME, May 25). At the Commission's closing session Mr. Baruch reappeared to answer...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley exhibited to friends in the War Department a cut lip. Said he: "I'm teaching my seven-year-old son [Wilson] how to box. Today he lammed...
Conscript Labor. So politically powerful is the A. F. of L. that it compelled Congress to exclude specifically from the W. P. C.'s considerations the question of conscripting labor. Nevertheless this question continued to bob up at the hearings despite the efforts of Chairman Hurley to suppress it by citing the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude. What some witnesses could not see was the difference between "military slavery" in the trenches and "industrial slavery" at home. Nevertheless the weight of authoritative testimony was against drafting labor. General MacArthur, speaking for the War Department, opined: "The enforced employment...