HURLEY, EDWARD NASH

(1864), an American public official, b. in Galesburg, Til. With only a common school education he was for some years a railroad worker, being a locomotive engineer up to 1888, after which he was for a while a traveling salesman. He originated and developed the pneumatic tool industry in this country. In 1913 he was American trade representative to the Latin American republics, later becoming chairman of the Federal Trade Commi ion. In 1917, during the war against Germany, he was appointed chairman of the U. 8. Shipping Board and presi+ dent of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which position he held till 1919. He wrote The Awakening of Busine , raid. and The New Merchant Marine,