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...Republican Club plans a number of open gatherings later in the autumn, and hopes to obtain Secretaries Adams and Hurley to deliver talks, if possible, and it may even get Calvin Coolidge or other prominent speakers...
...speak at Harvard. A mock convention will not be held due to the fact that members of the Club consider the renomination of President Hoover inevitable. Negotiations are being carried on to procure Charles Francis Adams '88, Secretary of the Navy, as the Club's first speaker, and Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War, will be invited to talk here in the course of the fall campaign...
...States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...economy bill was a consolidation of the Army & Navy into a Department of National Defense which was supposed to save at least $50,000,000 per year. By a vote of 153-to-135 the House rejected such a merger, much to the satisfaction of President Hoover and Secretaries Hurley and Adams. Other things the House did pleasing to the President were to provide for consolidation of public works activities and to authorize the White House to merge overlapping departmental agencies...
...this task Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley in Chicago appointed as receivers: 1) Edward Nash Hurley, politico-businessman who once headed the U. S. Shipping Board and last month procured both Republican and Democratic conventions for Chicago; 2) Charles Alexander McCulloch, who recently bolstered the business of the late John R. Thompson one-arm-chair cafeterias; 3) Samuel Insull. When an. objection against Mr. Insull's appointment was made, Judge Lindley exclaimed: "This company is Samuel Insull's own child. His appointment is not improper because if he were excluded the company would miss the benefit...