Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confidently and boldly, Howard B. Gill '13, fighting for his position as Superintendent of the Norfolk Prison Colony, struck home with the final blow in his campaign through the medium of his attorney, Raymond S. Wilkins, last night, when a letter answering the charges of Auditor Francis X. Hurley '24 was submitted to Governor...
...letter, following out the permission given the ex-prison head, replies to those of the charges that were not covered at the hearing and enclosed within is the brief that answered the 36 allegations of Hurley...
Gill has recently been undergoing a hearing in the presence of Governor Ely to determine Whether the Charges of Francis X. Hurley '24, State Auditor, that Gill was operating Norfolk under too lax penal regulations, were true. At the trial, Ely was convinced of the invalidity of Hurley's charges...
Yesterday, while the American gave birth to an unsubstantiated rumor that Dillon complained about Gill's two day tardiness in filing his brief, the Superintendent set to work on his rebuttal of the report of state-auditor Francis X. ("Hit and Run") Hurley '24, who presented 36 charges against the former prison head...
...about the rest of our dramatis personae? Hurley has left for parts hence, a discredited politician, doomed by the phrase "hit and run." Ely, whichever way he jumps, has lost the support of literates who once believed him above such stuff, Dillon has played a very small part indeed, indicating plainly enough that his job is as yet too big for him. The Boston Herald advertising itself "a Republican paper and proud of it" has muffed its big chance to pin the Governor, and has lost a good slice of circulation to boot...