Word: hurleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Massachusetts' Governor Charles F. Hurley left his office for a couple of days, ambitious and rambunctious Lieut. Governor Francis E. Kelly moved into the Governor's office, summoned the Governor's secretary, directed him before delighted newshawks to call the heads of the State's utility companies together for a rate conference. When Secretary Paul Ryan declined, Lieut. Governor Kelly sent out the invitations himself. When the utility executives also declined, irrepressible Francis E. Kelly loudly charged Governor Hurley with "lack of cooperation" and jealousy because in last year's election Kelly polled more...
Strong proof that the State would take no action against but would whole-heartedly support the present Teachers' Oath law was given by Governor Hurley yesterday in his annual message to the legislature...
...been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative...
...appeal to the college undergraduates of the Commonwealth for safe and sane driving on the roads, Governor Hurley issued a statement last week that sounded off once again the everpresent need for careful automobiling. The demand which the Governor made, namely that the youth of the community realize the responsibilities they assume the minute they sit down at the wheel, is an eminently practical one, especially in view of the terrific toll that automobiles take each year on our population...
While Governor Hurley is right in calling on college students for safe driving, however, there is one request for which college students can call on him. That is courtesy and respect from police. All too often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate...