Word: hurleyism
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...ways. The appointment of U.S.-educated T. V. Soong, who more than any other Chinese has in the past showed a grasp of Western methods, men and purposes, could scarcely fail to please the U.S. and simplify the task of Chiang's U.S. advisers, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Chief of the joint U.S.-Chinese General Staff...
...through the hearty and sensible good offices of Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, had tried fervently to bring China's hostile factions together. But all of Pat Hurley's shrewd good nature and his Choctaw war whoops had failed to turn the trick. The Ambassador, after a report to Washington and a call at Moscow, was back in Chungking. He had conferred with Marshal Stalin, presumably on Russian intentions in East Asia. One report said that he had smoothed the way for a visit to the Kremlin by China's Acting Premier T. V. Soong...
...mind more authoritatively than did the Secretary of State. At the moment of Roosevelt's death, his own men were abroad on the world business of the U.S. -Ed Flynn on Vatican-Kremlin understanding, Judge Samuel Rosenman and Bernard Baruch on Europe's torn economy. Pat Hurley, the accredited Ambassador to China, had just left London for Moscow and Chungking on a personal mission for the President. In Rome the President's representative at the Vatican, Myron Taylor, was already speaking of his post in the past tense: "It was a completely personal thing...
...selecting the delegation the Generalissimo apparently had cupped an ear toward friends and advisers in the U.S.A significant part of the credit for better U.S.-Chinese relations was given to shrewd, big-hearted Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now Ambassador to China. Last week he was in Washington, making his last rounds on U.S.-Chinese business before returning to Chungking, and from his pep talks it seemed clear that the U.S. had made up its mind to give genuine support to the Generalissimo's Government. The Generalissimo, in turn, had heartened his American friends with a quiet profession...
...banks of the Deel, strapping Christy Lynch is no pure Celt. He is the grandson of a Swiss governess in an aristocratic Irish family. Only three years ago, he was a sportswriter's hope for all-Ireland goalkeeper in Ireland's rough-&-tumble game of hurley. Then he sang from the stage of a Limerick movie theater, and a wealthy family named O'Mara was in the audience. The O'Maras sent their young find to Dublin to study under Dr. Vincent O'Brien, 74-year-old discoverer of McCormack...