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...that Pat Hurley had not always been a man of mixed allegiances. Born in Indian Territory 60 years ago, he was once attorney for the Choctaw Nations. His first job was in the coal mines when he was eleven years old but he became such a rich man (through oil and the law) that John L. Lewis accused him of "betraying the union of his youth for 30 lousy pieces of silver...
Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley had disappeared from Washington again last week. His friends assumed that he was off once more on a mysterious war errand for the President. Washington could not get over the spectacle of Pat Hurley, every bit as anti-New Deal as his old boss Herbert Hoover, turning out to be one of Franklin Roosevelt's trusted lieutenants. Since Pearl Harbor General Hurley had spanned six continents as the President's special representative...
When the New Deal swept the Republicans out of office-by that time Hurley was Secretary of War-Pat held on in Washington and built up a fine, fat law practice. He capped it off in 1940 by arranging a settlement between the Mexican Government and five companies whose oil the Mexicans had expropriated. For sending them a bill for something they had been getting free, the Mexicans handed Pat their highest decoration, the Order of the Aztec Eagle. Out of the oil companies Pat got such a six-figure fee that "I could afford to keep my stud horses...
...Break a Siege. One day in January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt called in Pat Hurley, then a 59-year-old reserve colonel, who had worn his first uniform 40 years before in the Indian Territory militia. The mission he assigned to -Pat was breathtaking: to break the blockade of Bataan from outside, get some food and ammunition to MacArthur's beleaguered soldiers. As a brigadier general, Pat Hurley took some millions of dollars and flew to Australia. There he hired shippers who were willing to take the slim chance. Several ships got through-for every one that made...
...Harrison, R. D. '45, Winthrop J-43 KIR 4766 Henderson, E. F. III '46, Dunster G-48 TRO 5865 Hiatt, H. H. '46, Leverett J-23 ELI 2476 Higgins, J. S. '43, Adams F-3 KIR 7239 Hodges, C. E. III '45, Eliot G-22 ELI 2552 Hurley, J. M. '44, Leverett A-42 TRO 6453 J Jefferson, P. W. Jr. '46, Dunster C-15 KIR 9496 Johnson, D. S. '46, Dunster C-15 KIR 9496 K Karnow, S. A. '45, Kirkland I-34 KIR 6081 Keller, W. E. '46, Winthrop J-43 TRO 1174 Kenmore, P. '45, Dunster...