Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, he works industriously for the development and efficient maintenance of the Army. He helped expose graft in the Veterans Bureau which sent its director, Charles Forbes, to the penitentiary. War veterans, however, are suspicious of him because of his vote against the Bonus...
...President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming...
...State, War & Navy building office labelled "Assistant Secretary of War" strode a tall, straight, handsome man from Tulsa, Okla. Briskly he paced a hundred feet along the stone-flagged corridor, turned sharply into another office labelled "Secretary of War." There, surrounded by flowers, furled flags, miniature airplanes, trench equipment, antique cannon and the portraits of former War Secretaries, many hands wrung his, many voices babbled congratulations...
...James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier considering suggestions than issuing orders. 2) Not for many a year will the rank & file of the Army have known a Secretary...
...driving "Kicking Pete," a mule, in shaft 6 of the Atoka Coal & Mining Co. At 15 he was punching cows on "Lazy S" ranch and feeling aggrieved that Theodore Roosevelt had rejected him as a rough rider. At 19 he was a captain of the Indian Territorial Militia warring against Chief Crazy Snake. On a Friday he was graduated from law school, and on a Friday became a practicing attorney in Tulsa, making money and a reputation. In the War he joined the Army on Friday, was commissioned a Major and sent over seas as a staff officer (Judge Advocate...