Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Navy Adams asked Attorney General Mitchell to give a legal opinion on the disputed clause in the Army appropriation bill. Attorney General Mitchell refused. Futile conferences between the Army and the Navy followed. Secretary Hurley broke off negotiations, carried the dispute directly to President Hoover with a request that he issue orders to the Navy to abandon its land stations as contrary to law. Secretary Hurley's argument was that the Naval air force should "go back to sea" and leave the defense of the coast to the Army...
Secretary of War Hurley, No. 3, got a special White House dispensation to make a survey of the upper Mississippi Valley in connection with waterway development. His vacation will probably come later in the month...
Secretary of War Hurley replied that: 1) no other big line would book the Negro women; 2) the War Department had to charter the American Merchant from the U. S. Lines to provide transportation; 3) it cost the Government more to send Negro women over on a chartered ship than it cost to send white women on regular lines; 4) if any Negro wanted to go with a white group which would "welcome" her, the War Department would make the necessary arrangements...
...private telephone bell rang in the White House. It was his political secretary, Walter Hughes Newton, calling from the Capitol. Mr. Newton said that the second session of the 71st Congress would adjourn in one hour or less. The President, in dinner jacket, summoned Secretary of War Hurley and together they motored to the Capitol. Such trips to "the Hill" are pure courtesy on the President's part. There is no constitutional reason for him to sign bills before adjournment...
...commission (No. 13?TIME, June 16) to investigate the Shipping Board's liquidation troubles, President Hoover last week chose: Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago, onetime Shipping Board chairman; President Clarence Mott Woolley of American Radiator Co. (Allan Hoover's boss this summer); and Ira Alexander Campbell of Manhattan, famed Admiralty lawyer...