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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend of the Reed family, helped guide his career. His law practice dealt chiefly with corporations and public utilities-interests closely allied with those of Andrew William Mellon...
Instinctively dramatic, he carefully gauges every public act, can still make even his wife cry with his play of words, voice and gesture when addressing a crowd. Ambitious, sincere, he is not altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has carried him so far. The Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes...
...public's jibes and jeers at the Senate's summer saunter through the tariff were enough to account for the Speaker's state of mind. What perhaps amused him most, what certainly incensed the Senate most, was the frequent charge that, like Nero, the Senate had fiddled while U. S. business burned (TIME, Dec. 2). Like many another, the Speaker had observed the Neronic figure of Senate Leader Watson, helpless to extinguish the spreading blaze of Senate insurgency...
...listen, because he turned the chair over to Representative Sloan of Nebraska during the bill's consideration in the Committee of the whole. Opposition to tax reduction came principally from Representatives Rankin of Mississippi, Ramseyer of Iowa, who argued heatedly but vainly for application of the surplus to public debt reduction...
...wars past and future-72? ($2,733,213,283, including $1,254,342,000 on the public debt, $759,799,895 on pensions and veterans' care, $719,089,388 on the Army & Navy...