Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, regarded as a personal representative of the President, was booed as he walked to the convention platform. He was seated as an Oklahoma delegate, thus being apparently obliged to join in voting for immediate payment of the cash Bonus. (The Oklahoma delegation was also pledged to vote for repeal of the 18th Amendment.) After a safe & sound speech on armament, Secretary Hurley was let off the platform with more cheers than boos...
...President Hoover has no relish for a fight in which he is doomed to defeat. Last week he was lying low, having abandoned all efforts to try to stop the Legion's stampede for the Bonus. He has a last line of defense?the veto. Secretary of War Hurley had announced he would go to the Portland convention, make a speech if they would let him. Last week the White House disavowed him as its spokesman...
Last week it was suddenly arranged for Governor General Roosevelt to remain at Manila throughout the campaign. Secre tary of War Hurley cabled him: "The President has reached the conclusion that you should not leave your duties for the purpose of participating in the campaign. . . . He believes it to be your duty to remain at your post...
What Japan would say should Patrick Jay Hurley write such an article for the Army & Navy Journal, U. S. citizens could only guess. Uchida. Count Yasuya Uchida, the man who kept all this boiling by his historic "fissiparous" speech in the Diet, is a gracious, grey-haired gentleman of 67 who dresses exquisitely, is very fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked...
Force from Washington, he reported Secretary of War Hurley as saying: "It was a great victory. Mac [General MacArthur] is the man of the hour. But I must not make any heroes just now" (TIME, Aug. 8). Secretary Hurley made no such statement. Questioned by newsmen at the White House, he had declared there was "no glory in this deplorable episode, no heroes...