Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Committee, investigating into aviation (TIME, Feb. 16), suddenly ceased its inquiry. It gave as a reason that its funds were practically exhausted. Some people suggested that it had got word from higher quarters to stop proceedings; others surmised that it felt it was making a farce of its investigation. At any rate, it abruptly ceased its hearings...
...anti-drug campaign. No voice was raised, and indeed I believe no voice can be raised, against the justice of the principles enunciated by the American delegation. The only question is as to the moment when they can be realized. The American delegation contended for immediate action. Other delegations felt time was required. Without taking a position between the two viewpoints, and with full recognition to the generosity with which the American delegation has given us its time and its activity, I cannot but express my own regret, first, that the delegation should have felt it necessary in any circumstances...
...following day, he stated that he felt better than usual...
...Lampoon out today would seem to show that even Lampy--the champion of the liberal arts--still has an eye to business. It seems that in the recent Business number of the Lampoon Doheny's name was linked with those of Shylock and Ponzi. Lampy, ever shrewd, evidently felt it worth while to apologize only to Mr. Doheny, remembering that Ponzi is at present a guest of the state and that Shylock never existed. Mr. Doheny, unaccustomed as he is to public notice, is expected to appreciate Lampy's expression of "regret that publicity of this nature should have been...
...George F. Willett, banker of Norwood, Mass., sued the Boston banking firms of F. S. Moseley & Co., Killer, Peabody & Co. and Robert F. Herrick, Boston lawyer, for $15,000,000. He claimed that these had conspired to rob his onetime firm, Willett, Sears & Co., of the control of two felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett was ill of typhoid...