Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. .LL.D...
...Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley chose, he might order U. S. soldiers thus...
Directly responsible for the Philippines as Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people...
...Secretary of War Hurley, suffering recurrence of an old stomach ailment, was taking a two-week rest at the President's summer retreat on the Rapidan...
...November, U. S. Secretary of War James William Good died. A month later, to take his place Patrick Jay Hurley, then Assistant Secretary of War, was selected by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 16). A question immediately arose: who could fill the vacated Assistant Secretaryship? From that post Dwight Filley Davis had gone into the Cabinet succeeding the late Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates...