Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispensation follows the precedent of the late Cardinal Farley who obtained from Rome permission for New York Catholics to eat meat on March 17, St. Patrick's Day, when it fell on a Friday...
Under Lasker and Farley the Shipping Board ruled over the fate of the Government's merchant fleet. Under the recent reorganization of authority, the man responsible for the conduct of the Government's shipping business is no longer the Chairman of the Shipping Board, but the President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation-Admiral Leigh C. Palmer. The change has converted the Shipping Board from a body of ship operators, to a body engaged in the general regulation of ocean-borne commerce. It is now principally a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the sea. And the smiling...
...there was any surprise in this announcement, it was not that Admiral Palmer was selected, but ratner what post he was selected for. It was known (TIME, Jan. 7) that Edward P. Farley was about to retire as head of the Shipping Board because of Senatorial objections. It was understood that the President was looking for a successor to him. When Admiral Palmer had been at the White House three times to confer with Mr. Coolidge it began to be rumored that he was going to be Chairman of the Shipping Board...
...London to represent the Board abroad. Instead he stays to be dictator over the Government's shipping policy as no Chairman of the Shipping Board has ever been- Denman of California, General George W. Goethals, Edward N. Hurley, John Barton Payne, Albert D. Lasker or Edward P. Farley...
...chief question that this event presented was that of a successor to the post. A dozen or more names were presented, but the President kept his counsel to himself in true Coolidge fashion. The choice of a successor to Mr. Farley and the presentation of a new shipping policy by the Administration were matters of momentary expectation...