Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Chairman O'Connor had a hunch. In 1933, he recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
When the O'Connor agents arrived they discovered that newshawks had beat them to it, were waiting to report the capture. Only thing lacking was the presence of Mr. Hopson. Host Hurley was hopping...
...Senate investigators reported that A. G. & E.'s admitted expenditures of $700,000 to defeat the Public Utility Bill were $92,000 short of the mark. Among those reported to have had A. G. & E. retainers: the law firms of Patrick J. Hurley, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, and of Basil O'Connor, onetime partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of House Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor, each...
Meanwhile in Springfield, Ill. the Republican cohorts of the Midwest were assembling. At their "grass roots" conference, the grassrooters turned out to include Hanford MacNider (Hoover Minister to Canada), Patrick Jay Hurley (Hoover Secretary of War), Arthur M. Hyde (Hoover Secretary of Agriculture), Arch Coleman (Hoover First Assistant Postmaster General...
HARVARD HOLY CROSS Stuart, cf. 2b., Brucato Sullivan, 3b. cf., O'Connell Shean, 2b. lf., Bracken Colwell, c. ss., Bartholemeo Allen, 1b. c., Barry Pope, lf. rf., Hurley Roberts, ss. 3b., Hart Tyler, rf. 1b., Duplessis Stone, p. p., Kenny or Lefebvre...