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Secretary Hurley: You can't give the Philippine people their independence at 2 o'clock on a specific day. This Hawes-Cutting bill attempts to tear down in five years all the United States has built up in 20. It is a cowardly bill...
...When Calvin Coolidge used to be there, Will Rogers could run in and out of the White House without formality. Last week he was brought there by a fellow-Oklahoman. Secretary of War Hurley. Afterwards Will Rogers reported...
...Hawes, 62-year-old St. Louis lawyer, scion of an old Southern family, who is the chief agitator for freeing the Filipinos. Last summer he traveled to Manila, stirred the islands' little brown men to wild excitement. Standing before him, tall, handsome, was Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, 49-, onetime capitalist of Tulsa and fighting son of a poor immigrant Irishman. To counteract the Hawes agitation President Hoover sent Secretary Hurley to the Philippines last autumn. He left Washington determined that the U. S. should hold on to its Pacific possession. He returned with the same fixed idea...
With the Far Eastern sky flaming as red as the sunburst of the Japanese flag, President Hoover, looking worn and worried, summoned Secretaries Stimson of State, Hurley of War and Adams of the Navy for a White House Council. With them hurried General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, and William Richards Castle Jr., Undersecretary of State. Dr. Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked...
Outcome of the White House conference was one that had grown more and more imminent all week. Commander-in-Chief Hoover said something to Secretary Hurley. Secretary Hurley spoke to General MacArthur. General MacArthur raced off for his office, scribbled something on a scratch pad, handed it to General George Van Horn Moseley, deputy chief of staff, who tapped out an order on his stenographer's typewriter with one finger. Then the President told an anxious nation...