Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar v. Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came...
...vessels from plying between the Philippines and the U. S. All these ideas President Hoover stoutly resisted and on one occasion Secretary of State Stimson, as the islands' onetime Governor General, marched to the Capitol and told Congress to stop plaguing the Philippines. In Manila last week Secretary Hurley recalled these Ad ministration efforts to protect the Philip pine market, declared: ''We've been some what confused amid these victories by the [Philippine] cry for independence. It seems hard to believe your people really want a tariff on products and it is difficult to carry...
President Hoover's Philippine assignment was hardly a welcome order for sportive Secretary Hurley, the youngest and most social member of the Cabinet. He had planned to go to Dublin for a gay August at the horse show. He always liked horse shows. At a pre-War one he met for the second time tall, attractive Ruth Wilson, daughter of Rear Admiral Henry Braid Wilson, as she was portraying Diana leading the chase. He remarked to a surprised friend: "Some day that girl is going to be Mrs. Hurley." The third time he saw her, he proposed. They were...
...Pierce Hurley, "Pat's" father, was a poor Irish immigrant. In Texas he married Mary Kelly. They had a brood of children. Pierce Hurley was thrown from a horse, crippled for life. Mary Hurley slaved to keep the family together, died when Pat was n. Said he years later: . "Mother's death hit me terribly. I was dazed for weeks. What I have made of myself has been due in no small measure to her, to my sisters and, in later years, to my wife. I've been mighty fortunate with my womenfolk...
What "Pat" Hurley did for himself, however, is known to every poor boy of Oklahoma. At eleven he drove a mule in a mine. At 14 he was cowpunching on Lazy S ranch. He worked his way through Bacone College at Muskogee. He studied law at night in Washington. He returned to Tulsa to make $15,000,000 in real estate, banking...