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...convention is much like another. Some 18,000 middle-aging legionaries were in Portland to fight the War over again in hotel lobbies. Their parade, sprinkled with 75 bands, took nearly four hours to pass through Multnomah Stadium. In the reviewing stand under heavy guard were Secretary of War Hurley who yelled "Yah-hoo!" when the Oklahoma delegation filed by, onetime Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Veterans' Administrator Hines, Admiral Leigh, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, Oregon's Governor Meier and Portland's celebrated, bushy-browed Mayor Baker. In the line of march were clowns, drum-&-bugle...
Humper? G. O. P. strategists including Secretaries Mills and Hurley and Postmaster General Brown, trooped to the White House in the wake of the Maine returns. They spent long gloomy hours with the President. He was told that he must revamp his personal campaign, get out to the country, make speeches, meet the Roosevelt challenge. He was urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have...
...Secretary Hurley did com plain about news stories filed by Pearson to the Sun in recent months, but made no protest about the "Cotillion Leader" chapter in More Merry-Go-Round. Of their own volition, Sun executives decided that Pearson's part in the book was a "last straw," that his usefulness to the news paper was ended...
John McGinnis remained unaccounted for. Secretary Hurley's lifelong acquaintances in Oklahoma scratched their heads. McGinnis? . . . Shooting? . . , They re membered that one of the Hurley brothers was killed in a Mexican revolution. Another was killed by a train. A Hurley sister was accidentally shot. And when Pat was a boy working in a coal mine he once thrashed a bully named Whiteside who later was killed by.someone else. But Pat never shot anybody. And he never had dealings with any John McGinnis. An Oklahoma City newspaperman thought the story had something to do with an editor named John McGuire...
...Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant at Coney Island. Although Scarpato presented a perfect alibi, he lived in mortal dread of vengeance, insisted that police record his fingerprints, had his full name tattooed on his left arm. Died. Florence Agnes Amberg Hurley, 47, second wife of famed Chicago Businessman Edward Nash Hurley; of injuries received in an automobile accident; at Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley, a co-receiver for onetime Insull properties, was attending a directors' meeting of Central Illinois Co. when he was told of his wife's injuries...