Word: hurleyism
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School Bored. In Hurley, N. Mex., junior-high-school Students Donald Broome and Martha Manners were made joint principals-for-a-day after winning a magazine-sales contest, were swiftly removed from office when their first official act was to proclaim a school holiday...
...official count in New Mexico put Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez 5,071 votes ahead of Republican Patrick J. Hurley, who was still demanding a recount...
...SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: i) Iowa's Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion and a combat brigadier general (and D.S.C. winner) in World War II, loyal Taftman in the primary campaign; 2) New Mexico's Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War (1929-33) and thrice-defeated candidate for U.S. Senator...
...Arizona's Barry Goldwater, a department-store operator who ousted grey, quiet Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, and Michigan Representative Charles E. Potter, who unseated Senator Blair Moody. In some states, the Eisenhower landslide failed to pull in strong Republican candidates. In New Mexico, Ike almost tugged Pat Hurley (Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover) across the line, but Hurley finally lost to Senator Dennis Chavez in a race so close that it is being challenged...
...Hurley, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover and a Roosevelt emissary to China and Russia, was running a seesaw race with Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez...