Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PATRICK J. HURLEY...
TIME gladly accepts and believes able Lawyer Hurley's disclaimer of being a lobbyist. TIME also agrees that the influence of a Republican Secretary of War with a Democratic Administration is not worth...
...last straw in the Norfolk controversy was gently laid on by the Boston Traveller yesterday. A vast three inch head across the top of its columns streamed forth the news that Norfolk prison graft had been bared in the Hurley Report; it was not until the story had lapsed into small type that the Traveller admitted two very important things--that the report had not yet been submitted to Governor Ely, and that whatever information the Traveller possessed on its contents came from "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into...
...says, Mr. Gill is no longer "available after what has happened," Massachusetts need not forget that "what has happened" is the work of the newspapers, and of the illegal sources from which their material has been drawn. Who are the "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe"? The state has a right to know...
With the publication of this report the real issues at Norfolk had been presented to the Governor. On his return from Bermuda February 9, Mr. Ely indicated that he would defer action on the Norfolk situation until he had examined Mr. Hurley's report and considered Mr. Gill's comments on it. "Norfolk is a great institution," he added, "but this ambitious experiment in the rehabilitation of felons must not be menaced by the possibility of failure because of the loss of a large section of public support in a subordinate state official." He questioned whether Mr. Gill, the originator...