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...undersigned residents and voters of the City of Cleveland would like to have the legislative record of Roscoe C. McCulloch printed in your very valuable publication. . . . GEORGE A. HURLEY JACOB F. WININGER MILTON M. LANG DAN W. DUFFY ANTOINETTE M. KRAMER Cleveland, Ohio...
...last week Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley lunched with President Hoover at the White House, hurried out to Boiling Field, climbed into a big Army plane, flew off on an important mission. On one of the longest river junkets ever undertaken by a Secretary of War, he was going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work...
Secretary of the Navy Adams asked Attorney General Mitchell to give a legal opinion on the disputed clause in the Army appropriation bill. Attorney General Mitchell refused. Futile conferences between the Army and the Navy followed. Secretary Hurley broke off negotiations, carried the dispute directly to President Hoover with a request that he issue orders to the Navy to abandon its land stations as contrary to law. Secretary Hurley's argument was that the Naval air force should "go back to sea" and leave the defense of the coast to the Army...
Secretary of War Hurley, No. 3, got a special White House dispensation to make a survey of the upper Mississippi Valley in connection with waterway development. His vacation will probably come later in the month...
Secretary of War Hurley replied that: 1) no other big line would book the Negro women; 2) the War Department had to charter the American Merchant from the U. S. Lines to provide transportation; 3) it cost the Government more to send Negro women over on a chartered ship than it cost to send white women on regular lines; 4) if any Negro wanted to go with a white group which would "welcome" her, the War Department would make the necessary arrangements...