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...President submitted to the Senate a list of over 2,000 appointments for confirmation, most of them recess appointments by President Harding. The list included ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg as Ambassador to Great Britain and Edward P. Farley as Chairman of the Shipping Board. (See page...
...Confirmed the nomination of ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg as Ambassador to Great Britain. ¶ Held up the nomination of Edward P. Farley as Chairman of the Shipping Board until investigation showed whether the charge was true that he was interested in a British shipping company, and gave British vessels preference over American ships in carrying grain for export...
Last week he returned. There was a four-hour session?presumably a heated session?of the Shipping Board. Mr. Farley then announced that the plan of direct operation with loading agents had been sacked. Instead the consolidation of the Government's shipping lines will go forward under a modified form of the present MO-4 contract...
During Mr. Farley's absence the Board had evidently become convinced that the proposed form of direct operation would be too expensive. Under the new plan a minimum saving of $1,500,000 a year is expected...
...present there are only two American cardinals ? Archbishops O'Connell of Boston and Dougherty of Philadelphia. The first American cardinal was John McCloskey of New York. The greatest was James Gibbons of Baltimore. The other two were Archbishop Farley of New York, predecessor of Archbishop Hayes? and Mgr. Falconio, Apostolic delegate to Washington, a naturalized American...