Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning via Key West from a Caribbean junket two years ago, Chicago's Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson was allowed "free entry" for ponderous baggage, which, on investigation, was found to contain kegged gallons of rum, bottled quarts of strong liquors. A U. S. judge at Key West harkened to the Congressman's plea that the liquor belonged to his brother-in-law Walter Gramm. Congressman Michaelson was exonerated (TIME, May 20). Last week another U. S. judge at Key West accepted Brother-in-law Gramm's plea of guilty, fined him $1,000 and costs...
...defense of the much maligned Harvard students, who in their efforts to protect an ungrateful public have brought down a flood of criticism upon themselves and Harvard, we wish to state that the cage is no Black Hole of Calcutta. Rather it is a depot where they await free transportation, furnished through the kindness of the Boston Police Department; their destination being the Station House where they await the arrival of their negligent parents. W. J. Henrich...
...Brighton force as evidence of the unpermitted occupation of city streets. The plain clothes men cannot convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must wait until they see the tickets change hands to place the speculator under arrest. For this reason, many of the professional men go free, but as they turn the ticket number over to the Athletic Association in return for money, the student selling them it almost always blacklisted...
Other items on the Chafee-Pollak agenda: Illegal suppression of free speech, lawless police interference in strikes and labor mass meetings, illegitimate espionage by Federal agents, use of the Third Degree, illegal methods employed by city police departments during "crime drives...
...Power Naval Parley in London next January (TIME, Oct. 21). He rejoiced that during the week Japan, Italy and France had joined the U. S. in accepting invitations to the parley unconditionally. He promised on returning to London to communicate soon with Tokyo, Paris and Rome "in the same free and open way" as with President Hoover...