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About six weeks ago Edward P. Farley, Chairman of the Shipping Board, sailed for Europe. Before sailing, he announced that the Shipping Board had finished with its plan of operating vessels through agents under the so-called MO4 contract (Managing Operators' contract No. 4). The Shipping Board was prepared to undertake direct operation ; it would group its 81 services into about a quarter as many lines and hire agents only to book passengers and load freight. The consolidation and inauguration of the plan would, he said, begin at once, being first applied to the five lines plying from the Atlantic...
Born in a dark sailors' boarding house in Front Street, her first place was with the Farleys, rich, etiolated, precise. Rollo Farley, the pallidly esthetic son of the house seduced her?she gave him the inspiration for his one great poem. Then he got engaged to a girl of his own class who had a head like a beautiful egg, and forgot Bertha. Bertha moved on?she was always moving on. She bore a son to Rollo?a son who was adopted at the age of two weeks or so by the Bixbys of Detroit. As soon...
With a few thousand well-chosen words Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General, disposed of the best laid plan of Messrs. Farley and Lasker, Chairman and ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board, for disposing of the Government's ships...
...plan, announced by Mr. Lasker before his retirement (TIME, June 18) and perfected by his successor, Mr. Farley, was for the creation of 18) and perfected by his successor, Emergency Fleet Corporation, which would operate the ships. By this means complete lines were to be built up, with trade names, goodwill, terminal facilities and all the advantages of complete business enterprises. It was proposed to sell the ships in time by the simple expedient of selling the stock of these corporations...
...Coolidge went to the Willard Hotel, which has been their Washington home. He held conferences on succeeding days in his old offices in the Senate building. He saw Chairman John T. Adams of the Republican National Committee, D. R. Crissinger (Governor of the Federal Reserve Board), Chairman Farley of the Shipping Board, Senator Cummins of Iowa, John Hays Hammond (Chairman of the Coal Commission), President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor...