Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original 1929 members four were missing-War's Good, Treasury's Mellon. Commerce's Lamont, Labor's Davis. The President sat down, hunched up his left shoulder. Vice President Curtis and Secretary of the Treasury Mills swung right leg over left, Secretary of War Hurley, left leg over right. Camera shutters clucked. The Cabinet rarely looked more darkly dignified. Piped a photographer: "Can't you gentlemen please look a little more cheerful this time?" Laughter at such impertinence rippled through the group. All except Postmaster General Brown smiled. Shutters again cluck-clucked...
...Hurley: "Despite our comparative isolation ... it is my reasoned belief that all elements of our land defense are at or below the present minimum needs...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley accepted the $275,000 monument for the Government. Brigadier General Louis Hermann Bash read a letter from President Hoover, presented the rain-splotched paper to Mr. Wright. Said Mr. Wright: "Thank you." It was his only speech...
...Clenching his fists, pouting his chest, Secretary of War Hurley barked at a Philadelphia audience: "If Governor Roosevelt could put into force one-tenth of the promises he has made, he would not only deprive the people of their control of the Government but he would establish an autocracy with himself as the autocrat...
...Samuel Instill William Randolph Hearst Senator Reed Smoot The Forgotten Man Senator Huey Long Eugene Meyer Vincent Astor Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole Eddie Dowling James John Walker Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin Samuel Seabury John Francis Curry Secretary of Treasury Mills John H. McCooey General Douglas MacArthur Secretary of War Hurley...