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...successor, Mr. Hurley, has delivered himself of several promising statements regarding expenditure and other state matters. Such talk may be little more than pre-nuptial fantasy, but at any rate the citizens of the state can rest assured that he will not sink to the Curley level. Mr. Curley can depart in peace, sure that his leave-taking will be unwept, unhonored, and unsung in local history, except by writers of verse with unusually long and scurrilous memories...
Last month when the motion of a Sinclair triumph was pervading the final hearings on the plan, Harry Sinclair made one of his stage gestures. In court rose his attorney, onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, to say that since some of the creditors appeared to think that Mr. Sinclair wanted to dominate the new company, Mr. Sinclair was willing to withdraw from rehabilitated Richfield's board of directors. Expostulating gently, the re-organization committee hastened to assure Mr. Hurley that it very much wanted Mr. Sinclair on the board. Other board members will be President...
...final gesture was also Harry Sinclair's. When Judge James last week found it beyond his lawful power to grant Richfield's reorganization committee more than $160,000 of its $381,000 five-year expense account, Attorney Hurley rose again, announced that Rio Grande Oil would gladly put up the difference...
...Massachusetts, voters who gave Franklin Roosevelt a 174,000 plurality for President, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a 143,000 plurality for Senator, and Democrat Charles F. Hurley a 39,000 plurality for Governor, proceeded also to elect a Republican Secretary of State, a Democratic State Auditor, a Republican Legislature, a Democratic Lieutenant Governor, and two Republican Representatives in place of Democrats. Beaver-bearded George Holden Tinkham, who has spent the last 21 of his 66 years as Republican Representative from the Democratic city of Boston, returned home day before election in time to vote. As usual in campaign years...
Massachusetts. A loser himself, Democratic Boss James Michael Curley had the consolation of seeing State Treasurer Charles Francis Hurley defeat Republican John W. Haigis to succeed Curley as Governor. Strapping, vigorous, 42-year-old Governor-elect Hurley, who likes boating and biography, was in 1930 the first Democrat to be elected State Treasurer in 19 years, went on to become the only man ever chosen thrice for that office...