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...Patrick J. Hurley--Secretary of War reports to President on his return from Philippine Islands...
Next day at Cabinet meeting Secretary Hurley repeated what he had told the President. His colleagues, listening, agreed that immediate Philippine freedom was out of the question. Afterwards to the Press President Hoover made his first important statement on the Philippines. Excerpts...
...President nodded his head, already greying with other troubles. His War Secretary had brought him back the kind of report which squared with his own preconceptions of the Philippine problem. He instructed Mr. Hurley to put his findings into writing and submit them officially to the White House...
Republican vice-presidential racers spurted gently last week. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, flying back to his post in Porto Rico, stopped in Raleigh, N. C. long enough to confide to newsmen: "I expect Secretary of War Hurley to be the next Republican vice-presidential nominee...
...Washington, Secretary Hurley, pleased as Punch with Rooseveltian support, declared: "This thing is getting to be a good joke but really, you know, I'm not a candidate. Besides I was for Charlie Curtis in 1924. I was for him in 1928. I'm still...