Word: brother-in-law
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...turned out that Mr. Gramm was a brother of the Lillian H. Gramm whom Congressman Michaelson married in 1906. Brother-in-law Gramm cheerfully testified that the liquor-laden trunks belonged to him, though they had been brought in under the Congressman's "free entry" permit. Did he know they contained liquor? Mr. Gramm planted himself on his constitutional rights, declined to answer...
...West jury believed Coalman Gramm's story, acquitted his brother-in-law. They took no stock in the testimony of Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alfred Oftedal, who told how Congressman Michaelson had visited him in Washington to discuss liquor and smuggling. Mr. Oftedal said that the Congressman had ejaculated: "To hell with generalities! What about my case? Am I going to have to see Ogden Mills [Undersecretary of the Treasury] about it again? What about those six trunks of mine at Jacksonville? I had freedom of the port...
...Brother-in-law Gramm was promptly arrested, charged with the offense of which Congressman Michaelson is cleared. He hired the Congressman's lawyer, used the same $2,000 cash for bail, remarked dolefully: "I'm sorry. I didn't expect this...
...sure, he had married Dolly Curtis, a strapping, titian-haired lady whose Brother Charles was Senator from Kansas. But that fact did not affect the smooth and comfortable routine of his life. When Mrs. Curtis died five years ago, the Senator as a widower went to live in the vine-clad Gann home in Cleveland Park, informal Washington suburb. When his brother-in-law sought the presidential nomination last year at the Kansas City Convention, Mr. Gann journeyed out and took charge of the Curtis headquarters. It was pretty much a family affair and all very jolly...
...until his brother-in-law was nominated and elected Vice President of the U. S. did Mr. Gann's troubles begin. First he was brought in from the cozy Cleveland Park home to take up residence, with the Vice President and Mrs. Gann, in a twelve-room suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Then he found himself being led off to great formal dinners with people he didn't know and who obviously didn't know him. A round-faced, bespectacled man, shorter than the large Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's brother-in-law sidled into...