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...records of Franklin Roosevelt's two appointees to the Surplus Property Board, only to come up emptyhanded. There was no skulduggery, the Senators agreed, in the business dealings of thin, sharp-nosed Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, or of Connecticut's moon-faced ex-Governor. Robert A. Hurley. From this standpoint, both were qualified for the big job of disposing of an estimated total of $75,000,000,000 in surplus U.S. war property...
This scrutiny of Hurley and Heller centered around their connection with the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. - Hurley as a $12,000-a-year vice president, Heller as the Army finance officer who had arranged a $2,000,000 Government-guaranteed loan for the financially queasy company, and a loan renewal (TIME, Dec. 4). Heller, who denied knowing Hurley at the time, had a War Department official and an Army colonel testify to his honesty in the deals. Such testimony seemed enough for the Senators...
...Chinese, who believe, with some reason, that onetime Oilman Hurley has a direct pipeline into the White House, generally approved of the choice. General Pat has been on warm personal terms with the Gissimo ever since his arrival. For Pat Hurley, there was added good news: even as Ambassador he could still wear the uniform he dearly loves...
...routine fashion, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate the names of two appointees to the new Surplus Property Board. They were Connecticut's ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley, 49, and Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, 44, multimillionaire member of one of San Francisco's first families, who resigned seven directorships to join the Army. Fifteen minutes after the names reached the Hill, the squall broke...
Some Senators promptly recalled a House Military Affairs Committee investigation last year into war contracts and $4,000,000 in Government-guaranteed loans given the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. The committee had wondered why Hurley, as vice president, had been paid $12,000 a year when he spent "as little as one day a week" at the plant, had no set duties. Coupled with this was the fact, suspicious to the committee, that Hurley got the job just before a $2,000,000 loan and just after several million dollars in war contracts had gone to the company...