Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, Virginia's downtrodden Republicans met to choose an opponent for him. They considered a long time. They even tried to persuade onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley to make the race. Dapper and dashing Republican Hurley claims Oklahoma as his political stamping ground but he has lived so long across the Potomac from his Washington law office that he is now eligible to become a Virginia voter. But neither Mr. Hurley nor any other Virginian worth a hoot would make the race. So the Republicans gave up. Mr. Byrd will go back to the Senate...
...April 10, 1932 was his Waterloo. He and Sam Jr. conferred with the bankers at the exclusive Chicago Club. They did not dare meet elsewhere for fear the dreadful news would leak out. At that meeting a receivership was agreed upon. Samuel Insull, Charles A. McCulloch and Edward N. Hurley (now deceased) were to become the three receivers of the downfallen domain. Less than a month later Mr. McCulloch went to Samuel Insull and told him that his brother Martin would have to give up his job as president of Middle West Utilities; there was evidence that Martin had used...
...confiscatory." Last week NRA held hearings in Washington to give the dissenting operators a chance to put their case. The hearings also gave John L. Lewis a national forum where with nothing harder than words he soundly cracked the heads of his opponents. Onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley appeared to represent two objecting coal operators from Illinois. Mr. Hurley gave assurance of his sympathy for the miners by telling that in his youth he himself had been a miner and a member of the mine union. When Mr. Hurley had finished, Orator Lewis rose, and speaking impressively with...
...charming!" said Mr. Lewis, every ponderous inch the orator. "How novel! But I'm afraid it would not add to the gaiety of nations." And Forney Johnston, like Patrick Hurley, left the field of battle in possession of the grim Demosthenes of coal...
...with the hope that Gill at the recent hearing has supplied all of the further their facts that Hurley saw might be necessary. Wilkins rests of the case of People vs. Gill. Gill has put up his fight and it was good enough to make the press back-water. It was strong enough to convince Hurley that he should drop into retirement for a while. It was good enough to throw the weights into the balance in favor of Gill's reinstatement as head of the prison colony and to give Wilkins confidence to blast Hurley as he does...