Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington. Commander Waters and the members of the B. E. F. after the military display of Mr. Hurley, they all decided that the best thing was to disband and go back home in peace...
...setting up his great reconstruction plan President Hoover has had one fundamental object in view and that is to protect from disaster the American home? Secretary of War Hurley...
Secretary of War Hurley carried his campaign for the Hoover recovery program flamboyantly into Tennessee. At Johnson City he was heckled and booed because of his opposition to the Bonus, his treatment of the B. E. F. When a policeman started to oust the heckler, Secretary Hurley exclaimed: "Let him alone. Let him earn his money. Such demonstrations are prompted by reports of the American Legion convention broadcast by a Boston ward-heeling politician who never saw the inside of a U. S. uniform. . . .? Yes, I'm opposed to the Bonus and I've got nerve enough...
...convention is much like another. Some 18,000 middle-aging legionaries were in Portland to fight the War over again in hotel lobbies. Their parade, sprinkled with 75 bands, took nearly four hours to pass through Multnomah Stadium. In the reviewing stand under heavy guard were Secretary of War Hurley who yelled "Yah-hoo!" when the Oklahoma delegation filed by, onetime Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Veterans' Administrator Hines, Admiral Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle...
Humper? G. O. P. strategists including Secretaries Mills and Hurley and Postmaster General Brown, trooped to the White House in the wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have...