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Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
When genial, canny Edward Phillip Farley stepped out of the chairmanship of the U. S. Shipping Board in 1924, he took with him a lesson World War I had taught him. In that war Norway sold ships to belligerents willing to pay fantastic prices for bottoms to carry their precious foodstuffs and implements of war, collected insurance from Great Britain on chartered ships sunk by submarines and mines. In the lull that peace brought to world shipyards the canny Norwegians rebuilt their merchant marine at rock-bottom prices. Even today 45% of Norway's vessels are less than...
Last week the Maritime Commission permitted Shipper Farley, now executive committee chairman of unsubsidized American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., to put his lesson into practice. For a fat $1,600,000, he sold four of his tired old (20-21 years) tubs to Great Britain, which needs cargo ships to transport war supplies. This gave Mr. Farley cash in the bank with which to begin replacing his fleet of 34 ships (average age: 23 years), if he wants to. His four old ships, out of service until the war boom, netted him the fancy price...
...Washington all was mellow and mild. Mr. Roosevelt, in a good after-dinner speech, told two Joe Miller gags, drew well-fed laughter and applause. Most significant words of the evening came from Postmaster General James A. Farley, who began his brief speech: "Fellow candidates-." Happily home to the White House went Mr. Roosevelt. As in Old Hickory's famed battle, peace officially reigned,* but the shot had been fired...
...today were to be given his choice of the Presidency or the success of his program, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. No higher tribute could be paid a U. S. politician in an election year. That No. 1 appraiser of U. S. selfishness, Post master General James A. Farley, once said: ". . . Cordell Hull is the most unselfish man I ever met." Agreement Disagreement. The saint like man in the blue serge suit, whose only physical exercise is occasional putting-practice, an occasional game of croquet, has long been an adept in the most torturing of all mental gymnastics - foreign...