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...Chairman of the Board is prominent in Great Lakes shipping circles. Born in Madison, Wis., he attended the state university there. Later he organized the Edward P. Farley Co., ship owners, in Chicago. During 1921 and the greater part of 1922 he served as Vice President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and had charge of the sale of government vessels. Last August he retired to resume private business. On June 13 he will give it up again and take over his new duties in Washington, where he is expected to carry on Mr. Lasker's policies...
...appointment of an officer who is not a graduate of the War College to be commander-in-chief of the great United States Fleet is a crime against the people of this country. . . . Appointment of an officer lacking this training to be the head of the Naval Academy at Anapolis is nothing less than a scandal. . . . More than half of the officers given preference in the transfers recently announced and to take effect this summer are not graduates of the War College. The service is disgusted with the situation, disgusted that the same old game of service politics is being...
...said that two-thirds of the Government fleet could be put into commission at a maximum cost of $5 a ton, deadweight, and at least half of it ultimately sold to foreign buyers at $10 a ton less than they can now build similar vessels...
...most luxurious and largest German liner to be built since the war was launched at Hamburg. Herr Ebert, President of the German Republic, officiated at the ceremony, and thanked the Hamburg -American Steamship Company for its enterprise in reconstructing the German merchant marine fleet...
...Twenty-five years later he emerged from the distinguished law firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, and at the call of Woodrow Wilson, became in rapid succession: General Counsel to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and to the Director General of Railroads, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, Secretary of the Interior...