Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result has been a bill prepared by the House, providing for the deportation of all aliens convicted of violation of the Narcotic and of the Volstead Acts. Some of the anti-prohibition minority suggested that such a ruling might interfere with the verdict of the juries if they felt deportation too severe a penalty. But inasmuch as violation of the Volstead Act is an attack on the Constitution and so high treason, the House passed the bill...
...Silver Bay Conference, which will be held this year from June 15 to June 23, has progressed rapidly since active work was begun on March 24. The committee, which is composed of 34 men, has already approached over 100 men in regard to attending the conference, and it is felt that a large percentage of these will do so. So far, the drive for membership has been in preliminary stages only, but after the April recess, it will begin in earnest...
Senator Ransdell went on to point out that he felt an increase in our merchant marine could be accomplished at this time. "Let us discontinue so far as practicable the expensive government transport service of the army and navy, and make our cargo-passenger ships the agencies of such communications, as do all other maritime nations of the world. Such a provision should increase the net carvings to those private owners engaging in such a trade, and be an impelling inducement to private owners to purchase at a fair valuation the Shipping Board's passenger-cargo vessels adapted for this...
...Stroke, S. G. French; 7, P. H. Robb; 6, W. P. Beal; 5, H. M. Watts Jr.; 4, C. W. Felt; 3, H. M. Stevans; 2, L. D. J. Draper; bow, A. L. Smith 3d; cox., Harmanenni...
...last letter I promised to send you an account of the Qua Quan Quot, the scoral organization that once made itself felt in the Inca University. At the outset let me explain that the last word, Quot, seems to be translatable somewhat like the Latin "volgus" or Greek "polloi" and may be rendered in English as "herd" or "clan". It was often used by the Incas to refer to cattle, though in this case it seems to imply some sort of men. The significance of the other two words is unknown...