Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Directly responsible for the Philippines as Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people...
Politics & policy figured in all nine rejections. John Rutledge was refused confirmation as Chief Justice by a Federalist Senate because of his denunciation of the Jay Treaty. President Buchanan saw Jeremiah Sullivan Black of South Carolina rejected in February 1861 because of the rising political passions preceding the Civil War. President Cleveland's bitter foe, New York's Senator David Bennett Hill, succeeded in slaughtering two of Cleveland's Supreme Court appointments in one month...
Alumnus Ward Andrew Neff, vice president of the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal, donor of Jay H. Neff Hall, the journalism school building, for "leadership in agricultural journalism . . . vision and service . . . encouragement of journalistic education...
...November, U. S. Secretary of War James William Good died. A month later, to take his place Patrick Jay Hurley, then Assistant Secretary of War, was selected by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 16). A question immediately arose: who could fill the vacated Assistant Secretaryship? From that post Dwight Filley Davis had gone into the Cabinet succeeding the late Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; Mr. Hurley's elevation seemed to establish the precedent that War Department assistant secretaries are full secretaries in embryo. So, for five months the President of the U. S. weighed carefully the qualifications of candidates...
This and the increased taxes of all sorts provided in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...