Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspend operations on the Egypt until next summer. The salvage ship went south to Belle He, was working last week in an attempt to destroy the week of the Florence H., a Wartime U. S. freighter named for the wife of U. S. Shipping Board Chairman Edward Nash Hurley. The Florence H. sank in 1918 with a cargo of 5,000 tons of guncotton and steel, remained till last week a menace to French coastal navigation. So spectacular have been the Artiglio's successes that a French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing, taking notes. Overboard went the Artiglio...
...Discursive was the report of Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. It began with an Introduction which stated that "the efficiency of the Army of the United States has been increased," that this was possible only because of "the wide experience and sympathetic interest of my immediate predecessor, the [late] Hon. James W. Good. . . . His service to the country should not be forgotten...
Secretary Hurley announced that the commissioned, warrant-officer and enlisted strength of the Regular Army, exclusive of Philippine Scouts, was 130,910 on June 30. About 35% of this number were on duty outside the continental limits of the U. S. Enlisted soldiers were divided as follows...
Proposed for the Edward N. Hurley College was an exchange of students with similar foreign schools. A cable was sent to Edgar Algernon Robert Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, president of the British National Union of Students, offering scholarships...
With his gift Mr. Hurley made a re quest: that the six study-halls in the pro posed collegiate Gothic building be named for "distinguished American industrial leaders of international vision;" that an oil painting of each be hung to remind the students of "his boyhood struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...