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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...
...cruiser Richmond, one of the ten vessels of that class which are being built for the Navy, a new record for greater-than-destroyer vessels was established. On a measured course off Rockland, Me., the new cruiser made 34.48 knots?or 39.2 miles an hour. Except for destroyers, no ship of the United States Navy has ever developed such great speed. Like the others of her class (Omaha, Trenton, Milwaukee, etc.) the Richmond is 550 feet in length and 55 feet abeam, and carries 12 -six-inch rapid-fire guns. Until now our Navy has been entirely without such ships...
...Marquis, eminent divine of Detroit, has known Henry Ford for 20 years. Dr. Marquis went along on the Peace Ship; was employed for five years as " sociologist" head of the Ford plant; became so interested in the mind of Henry Ford that Ford psychology became his major study. Dr. Marquis' book,* cleverly written, is an examination of the Ford halo. It leaves that halo very big if somewhat...
...ship was named the Deutschland; it is 597 ft. long; 73 ft. broad; 22,000 tons displacement...
Under the headline " British comment on Liquor Decision," all of the above statements are " summarized " by the London correspondent of The Monitor thus: " The Press here gives considerable prominence to the United States Supreme Court's decision on the question of a ship's right to bring liquor into United States ports...