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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Congressman Michaelson had passed through Key West 17 months earlier, returning from a junket in Cuba and Panama. Upon his Congressional "free entry" permit, six trunks had been passed without customs inspection by Key West officials. At Jacksonville two of the trunks, dripping with liquor, had been seized, found to contain assorted jugs and bottles of choicest whiskey, brandy, rum (TIME, April...
...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...
...Free Show. All along the Mall from Buckingham Palace nearly to Trafalgar Square stretched a double row of shiny limousines bearing debutantes, peeresses, diplomats and their wives to Her Majesty's first Court of the season. Stalled by the formality of the occasion, the cars were surrounded by a dense, jostling mass of working girls, tired shoppers and messenger boys, who scrambled like children at the Zoo for a peek at High Society before going home to tea. The great state show soon to take place inside the palace was not for them. This was their -show...
...Lakehurst. The German dirigible in its flight to the U. S. last year, used gas instead of gasoline as fuel for its engines?the reason being that when gasoline is used up, an airship becomes lighter and rises unless some of its bag gas is also set free, a costly expedient. Gaseous fuel as it is used up can be replaced by air without loss of weight...
...more floor was announced yesterday. The sum of $166,000 will practically complete the second floor of the athletic building wherein the great majority of the minor activities will find a place. At present the plans call for fencing, boxing, and wrestling rooms, as well as several free rooms for corrective exercising, and general classes...