Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurley's Faith...
Vice Presidents often become Presidents. No Catholic has yet been President. Why did TIME miss an opportunity to give an important fact, politically, about Patrick Jay Hurley? . . . (TIME, Sept...
Secretary Hurley's father & mother were Roman Catholics. He attended a Baptist school. His wife is an Episcopalian. Regarded by many as a Catholic. he never discusses his faith (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929). When he goes to church it is usually with his wife at hers...
...delivered half the Oklahoma delegation to Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City convention and helped mightily to carry the State for the Republican presidential nominee. When in 1929 President Hoover asked him if he would serve as Assistant Secretary of War, "Pat" Hurley flashed his warm Irish smile and replied: "Mr. President, I'd crawl on my hands and knees to get that office." When the Hurleys arrived in Washington they were so overawed by the capital's society that they used to practice their entrances and exits at a mirror before dining...
...civilian head of the Army, Secretary Hurley has kept the wheels turning quietly without adding any new cogs or altering the mechanism. He has visited practically every Army post in the land. His most unhappy hours have been spent between the insistence of President Hoover that the Army economize and the assertion of the Department's Generals that any cut in expenses will jeopardize national defense. Next winter he will have a chance to show his real strength when he tries to get Congress to eliminate two score obsolete Army posts (TIME...