Word: hurleyism
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...Elis, Heptagonal and IC4A indoor champions, were surprised in almost every event Saturday, but the javelin toss was the one which completely crushed them. Pete Morrison, Carl Goldman, and Ed Hurley all threw the spear further than any Eli, Morrison winning with a toss of 164-feet-one half inch, the longest. Yale was favored to take both first and second in the event...
Robert E. Barnett of Lincoln, Neb.; Robert D. Canty of Arlington, Mass.; Robert S. Dolven (Capt.) of Willmar, Minn.; Jack A. Hamilton of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Robert A. Hastings of Austin, Minn.; Philip C. Haughey of Framingham, Mass.; Richard K. Hurley of Belmont, Mass.; Edward L. Keenan of Orchard Park, N. Y.; Rodney W. Long, Jr., Winchester, Mass.; Lewis D. Lowenfels, New York City; Neil K. Muncaster of Winchester, Mass.; William M. Parmley of Salt Lake City, Utah; Dominic Repetto of Rockville Center, N. Y.; LeRoy H. Scharpen of Red Wing, Minn.; William M. Schreiber of Wooster, Ohio; Robert S. Treisman...
...vacant the seat he had held for 19 years, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez slumped in his chair like a weary gnome. The Senate had spent some $225,000 to investigate irregularities in the 1952 New Mexico senatorial election, in which Chavez edged out Republican Patrick Hurley. When the vote came, every Democratic Senator was present, and they stood with Chavez to the last man-along with five Republicans and Wayne Morse. By a vote of 53 to 36, the U.S. Senate decided to keep Dennis Chavez as a member...
When the votes were counted in New Mexico's U.S. Senate election in 1952, the result was close enough for an argument. The official count gave Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez a lead of only 5,071 votes over onetime U.S. Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election and got the U.S. Senate to investigate. For 15 months a Senate subcommittee-Republicans Frank Barrett of Wyoming and Charles Potter of Michigan and Democrat Thomas Hennings of Missouri-tried to discover...
...right to the seat. The report this week goes to the Rules Committee and then to the Senate floor. There, barring a miracle, Dennis Chavez should be able to muster enough of his colleagues' votes to keep his seat. This prospect was clear to ex-Cavalryman Hurley. Growled he: "The Grand Old Party apparently now hasn't the guts that God gave a goose...