Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News (TIME, Nov. 17). And the man who finally turned the trick was New York's official greeter and one-time police commissioner, Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen who, having joined the Salvation Army's relief committee, tried to get Secretaries Hurley and Adams to bring about the game. When they failed, persuasive Mr. Whalen journeyed to Annapolis and West Point, somehow managed to get the superintendent of each institution to drop his grievance...
...good Roman Catholic and a good businessman is Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago. A good Roman Catholic institution is the University of Notre Dame at South Bend, Ind. To Notre Dame came last week a gift from Businessman Hurley: $200,000 to found a College of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. Well might Businessman Hurley consider himself internationally-minded, well might he plan that his donation should make internationally-minded businessmen out of Notre Dame students. His fortune, he pointed out, had started in 1899, in London, with the sale of $125,000 of patents for pneumatic hammers and drills, which...
...hard times ringing in his ears, the President next appointed a special Cabinet Commission to "formulate . . . plans continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the winter." Its members: Secretary of Commerce Lamont (chairman), Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Federal Reserve Board Governor Meyer...
...undersigned residents and voters of the City of Cleveland would like to have the legislative record of Roscoe C. McCulloch printed in your very valuable publication. . . . GEORGE A. HURLEY JACOB F. WININGER MILTON M. LANG DAN W. DUFFY ANTOINETTE M. KRAMER Cleveland, Ohio...
...last week Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley lunched with President Hoover at the White House, hurried out to Boiling Field, climbed into a big Army plane, flew off on an important mission. On one of the longest river junkets ever undertaken by a Secretary of War, he was going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work...