Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Calvin Coolidge used to be there, Will Rogers could run in and out of the White House without formality. Last week he was brought there by a fellow-Oklahoman. Secretary of War Hurley. Afterwards Will Rogers reported...
With the Far Eastern sky flaming as red as the sunburst of the Japanese flag, President Hoover, looking worn and worried, summoned Secretaries Stimson of State, Hurley of War and Adams of the Navy for a White House Council. With them hurried General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, and William Richards Castle Jr., Undersecretary of State. Dr. Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked...
Outcome of the White House conference was one that had grown more and more imminent all week. Commander-in-Chief Hoover said something to Secretary Hurley. Secretary Hurley spoke to General MacArthur. General MacArthur raced off for his office, scribbled something on a scratch pad, handed it to General George Van Horn Moseley, deputy chief of staff, who tapped out an order on his stenographer's typewriter with one finger. Then the President told an anxious nation...
...killing?" giggled Mrs. Hurley...
...impressive an assemblage as might have gathered to honor the authentic, flesh-&-blood great: three Cabinet members, 31 Senators, 91 Representatives, five members of the Diplomatic Corps, three foreign ministers, many and many a bigwig of politics and business. Speeches were made by Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley and U. S. Senator George Higgins Moses...