Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gold Coasters hit the win list with a bang, as, sparked by Bob Hurley, they scored a safety, and two touchdowns to one for their opponents. On the first play that they had possesion of the ball, Hurley cracked the Ramblers tackle, and sped down the field through an alleyway of a hole from his own 25 over the Dudley goal line. Adams pounded through guard for the conversion...
...Phil Neagle, and some more practice, they may be able to keep the drives going that were stopped this afternoon, but that should produce touchdowns later in the season. Kieran Culliton should go to town as the season wears on with his passes to the ends and Bob Hurley. So don't count Adams out on the basis of the weak showing today. It will take a lot to beat them when they get going...
That is not the sort of achievement which could have been expected under the political Secretaries who preceded Stimson-men like Weeks, Good, Hurley, Dern, Woodring. Most of the political department heads either meddled witlessly or let the Army run itself while they busied themselves with other things...
...Bishop Hurley proclaimed Naziism a worse enemy than Communism, clearly favored U.S. intervention. Last Sunday Archbishop Francis Joseph Beckman of Dubuque militantly took issue with him on both points...
Archbishop Beckman denounced the "dictatorship pseudo-officially canonized by a brother cleric"-a reference to Bishop Hurley's suggestion that President Roosevelt alone should decide upon U.S. entry into the war. He assailed the practice of "the secular and even the Catholic press to place official interpretations on the pronouncements of clerics newly returned from abroad" (i.e., Bishop Hurley, who until last fall was stationed at the 'Vatican). He bemoaned the fact that "sadly enough the flagpole on the White House lawn has never lacked for clerical adornment...