Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost homes to be rented back to them. In Boston, Son James, who indignantly declared it a nuisance that every move he made was interpreted as an overture for nomination as Governor or Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, called a meeting of publishers (also attended by his friend Governor Hurley) and urged them to help get private jobs for 35,000 workers discharged by WPA by donating free space for "situations wanted" advertisements...
Last week Lawyer Hurley, suing Lawyer Williams and the three policemen for $25,000 damages for his arrest, put on his 1932 bathing suit, sploshed water on it, sprawled on the floor in Judge William J. Lindsay's Superior Courtroom in Chicago. The jury giggled and gaped, deliberated 95 minutes, decided in favor of Lawyer Williams but assessed $100 damages against the three policemen who had defaulted by not appearing...
...Sunday in August 1932, Lawyer Timothy D. Hurley was sunning himself in his swimsuit on a public beach on the Michigan lakefront in Evanston. Lawyer Lynn A. Williams, one of several property holders whose beach joined the public sands, was passing out little printed cards inviting people to move off the private onto the public part of the beach. He had just handed cards to two pretty young women when he noticed Lawyer Hurley. "I was shocked. I told him he couldn't lie there like that. But he kept lying with his head on the sand looking...
...Governor Hurley deals Oath Law repeal bill death blow by veto...
...Evansville, Ind. three years ago Don Hurley Cantner celebrated his first birthday by joining the Young Men's Christian Association, trying out the swimming pool. On his second birthday he joined the Baker Friendly Indian Club, receiving a coupstick signifying bravery in battle. On his third birthday he was initiated as the youngest GraY member in Evansville. This year he celebrated his fourth birthday by joining the Junior Optimist Club...