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...wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when the pie was cut, to cause a "diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests...
...must be realistic. We must not indefinitely underwrite a politically bankrupt regime. And if the Russians are going to enter the Pacific war, we must make a determined effort to capture politically the Chinese Communists, rather than allow them to go by default wholly to the Russians." When Patrick Hurley became ambassador, he accused Davies & friends of being "favorable to Communism and against the policy of the U.S. in China," demanded Davies' dismissal. Davies was shifted to Moscow, where "Beedle" Smith regarded him as "a very loyal and very capable officer of sound judgment." As a member of Dean...
After Murphy's victory, I.B.C. Promoter Jim Norris was asked if Matthews was offered a chance at Maxim's crown. The answer: "No." To Matthews' manager, Jack Hurley, who has refused to sign a contract with I.B.C., the answer was expected. "The I.B.C. dictates who fights who and when and where. They're big business. But I'll fight; I'm trying to keep the independents [managers and boxers] in business . . . Better we stay out here, workin' at our trade...
Everybody Gets Rich. Taking a professional skeptic's view of the whole affair, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith summed it up with a tart comment on who fights who these days and why: "You can't blame Hurley, you can't blame Murphy and you can't blame the promoter [Norris]. Chances are all three will win in the end. Let Matthews be passed up just a little longer, and there'll be such outraged cries from coast to coast that the bout will make everybody independently wealthy...
Oklahoman Hurley furnished a new, intimate glimpse of President Roosevelt in his last days. In March 1945, Hurley testified, he visited Roosevelt to complain of the still-secret concessions made to Russia at Yalta: "... I went to the White House . . . with my ears back and my teeth skinned, to have a fight about what had been done. When the President reached up that fine, firm, strong hand of his to shake hands with me, what I found in my hands was a very loose bag of bones...