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...slap at insurgency brought a murmur of approval. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who had been sitting in a box with Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, stiffened when her father's name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
...time Senator James Wadsworth. The name of Wadworth, too, was to be put before the convention for Vice Presidential consideration. There was also the chance that Vice Presidential lightning might flash over the Philippines and hit Theodore Roosevelt in Manila. It might also nip Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley as he sat in seclusion in Chicago and framed the river & harbor development plan for his party's platform...
...members of the President's Cabinet were going as delegates to speed his renomination. Secretaries of State Stimson and of the Treasury Mills could be spotted under the New York placard. Secretary of War Hurley, aggressive and smiling, would be with his fellow Oklahomans. The Missouri contingent would contain Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the Virginia delegation Secretary of Labor Doak. But of all the Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet members present none would compare in influence and importance to Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, President Hoover's pre-convention manager and his personal representative at Chicago...
...backed him up. Secretary Mills followed to denounce the measure as "pork barrelism" from start to finish. He asked to be taken off the R. F. C.'s board if that agency was going to "make $50 loans to John Doe of Spokane on a second-hand automobile." Secretary Hurley flayed "mercy money" as a "dole," estimated the public works proposed for the Army to execute would put only 34,178 men to work...
...capital. A detachment of 30 passed through Chicago from Utah. General Glassford had heard that from 70,000 to a million veterans would be in Washington by June 6. Together with Daniel Willard Jr., son of B. & O.'s kindly president, General Glassford called on Secretary of War Hurley to decide how the city and railroad were to be protected, how the marchers could be sheltered out of the dwindling D. C. community chest. The first contingent to arrive last week he billeted in a vacant department store...