Word: hurley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurley, wrote Truman, "was an impetuous sort of person" who, in November 1945, while still Ambassador to China, publicly attacked the U.S.'s China policy less than two hours after he had been amiably discussing the Chinese situation with Truman. At that point, said Truman, "I realized that Hurley would have to go." In a 16-page rebuttal, Pat Hurley claimed that he had resigned before attacking Truman's China policy, charged Truman with inventing "mythical conferences, mythical fierce speeches and synthetic quotations." Then Hurley went on to lay the blame for the fall of China on Truman...
...LIFE, brought denials from Henry Wallace, ex-Secretary of State James Byrnes, ex-Attorney General Francis Biddle and ex-Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. This week the first installment of Mr. Truman's second volume brought denials from Bernard Baruch, General Albert Wedemeyer and onetime Ambassador Patrick Hurley...
...Defending General George Marshall's ill-fated attempt to make peace between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists in 1945-46, Truman declared, "Hurley and Wedemeyer led me to think that they believed" in the possibility of collaboration between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists. Replied General Albert Wedemeyer, former U.S. commander in the China Theater: "This is not correct, speaking for myself...
...while at the Dartmouth gym tonight, it looked like the Crimson was off to a good start. Dick Hurley dropped in a basket and followed it with a foul about to give the varsity a quick 3-0 lead...
Wilson plans to start the same five he started against M.I.T. last Saturday, with Bob Hastings and Bob Barnett at the guards, "Ike" Canty at center, and Dick Hurley and Phil Haughey at forwards...