Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month when the motion of a Sinclair triumph was pervading the final hearings on the plan, Harry Sinclair made one of his stage gestures. In court rose his attorney, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, to say that since some of the creditors appeared to think that Mr. Sinclair wanted to dominate the new company, Mr. Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President...
...Massachusetts, voters who gave Franklin Roosevelt a 174,000 plurality for President, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a 143,000 plurality for Senator, and Democrat Charles F. Hurley a 39,000 plurality for Governor, proceeded also to elect a Republican Secretary of State, a Democratic State Auditor, a Republican Legislature, a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, and two Republican Representatives in place of Democrats. Beaver-bearded George Holden Tinkham, who has spent the last 21 of his 66 years as Republican Representative from the Democratic city of Boston, returned home day before election in time to vote. As usual in campaign years...
Massachusetts. A loser himself, Democratic Boss James Michael Curley had the consolation of seeing State Treasurer Charles Francis Hurley defeat Republican John W. Haigis to succeed Curley as Governor. Strapping, vigorous, 42-year-old Governor-elect Hurley, who likes boating and biography, was in 1930 the first Democrat to be elected State Treasurer in 19 years, went on to become the only man ever chosen thrice for that office...
State Vote FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR (859 precinets out of 1765) Lodge (Republican) 401,775 Curley (Democratic) 351,229 FOR GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS (356 precinets out of 1765) Haigls (Republican) 390,861 Hurley (Democratic...
...will the State election be neglected. If Haigis, the Republican gubernatorial nominee is leading, a circle of green lights will be thrown on top of Sever Hall, and relayed from there over to Widener by easy stages. A lead of Hurley, Bourbon aspirant, will be indicated by emptying a case of old champagne into the crowd below...