Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the door of the Presidential suite in Washington's Hotel Willard one afternoon last week peeped a lady with the reputation of being the wisest of her clan ?Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Beside her peeped pretty Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary...
...directors, accounting for three of the four Republican places. About the White House last week it was generally assumed that two of the Democratic directors of R. F. C. would be Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York financier and onetime chairman of the War Industries Board, and Edward Nash Hurley, Chicago banker and onetime chairman of the Shipping Board. For active president of R. F. C. was needed a man with a repu tation for vigor as well as for banking. Mr. Hoover chose his week-end visitor, Charles Gates Dawes...
Mayor General Lytle Brown, Chief of Army Engineers, investigated contract labor camps in the Vicksburg area, last fortnight reported to Secretary of War Hurley that no "slavery in its most hideous form" existed there, as alleged by the A. F. of L. Here and there he did find "bad spots," long hours, low wages but no thrashings.-ED. Wilkes's Booth
...selection of Chicago as next year's Republican convention city smacked of a public auction. When Philadelphia. Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland withdrew for lack of bidding cash. Atlantic City alone contested the sale. From Chicago had come a citizens delegation headed by Democrat Edward Nash Hurley, Wartime chairman of the Shipping Board, and Col. Robert Isham ("Secret Six") Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce. They offered the G. O. P. the city's new indoor Stadium for its meetings, promised reduced railroad fares and moderate hotel rates. Of most importance, they waved a certified check...
...Adams for his first picture with his colleagues. The whole group continued to buzz with informal talk. Mr. Stimson chatted away with Secretary Mellon as if they were in private conference. Secretary Wilbur bent his head to hear what Postmaster General Brown had to say while Secretary of War Hurley hobnobbed with Vice President Curtis as if he had never thought of getting his job. The U. S. S. Akron droned overhead...