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Like Secretary Mills in Boston, Secretary Hurley did not mention Prohibition and his party's Resubmission plank. These omissions were accepted as an indication that nationally the G. O. P. would soft-pedal this issue, at least until the President speaks out on it for himself...
...Hoover campaign rolling in the Midwest, Secretary of War Hurley, dapper and dashing, went to Columbus, Ohio last week to address the Republican State Convention. His speech, like Secretary Mills' in Boston fortnight ago, was a master text, hall-marked by the White House for lesser G. 0. Partisans to echo on the stump. Loud of voice, wide of gesture, Secretary Hurley demonstrated the approved party method of defending President Hoover and attacking Governor Roosevelt. Excerpts...
...Hurley speech touched off a short, sharp outburst of partisan oratory in the Senate. Exclaimed Arkansas' Senator Robinson, Democratic floor leader...
...Mills, Hurley and Hyde?the three musketeers of the Hoover Administration! . . . They scoff at this proposal for a new deal. Do these musketeers insist upon playing the game with marked cards...
...Hermann, Mo. on the Missouri river a weather-beaten skiff pulled alongside the shiny government towboat Mark Twain aboard which Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was inspecting inland waterways. Aboard the skiff was its owner, William ("Steamboat Bill") Hechmann, old-time river pilot. Observing an enormous fish lashing about at the end of a line astern the skiff, the Secretary shouted...