Word: inspectoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Government-owned S. S. Cristobal brought back to Manhattan from Panama 23 junketing Congressmen and Senators. One of these was Representative William M. Morgan, of Newark, Ohio, merchant, farmer, implacable prohibitor. On the pier Customs Inspector L. E. Crawford began to go through the Morgan handbaggage. Thereafter Inspector Crawford gave this version of events...
...inspector asked the Congressman if he had any liquor. The Congressman replied that he had four bottles of whiskey, but as he was a Government official returning from an official mission he could not be stopped. The inspector dipped into one bag and brought up four bottles which he set conspicuously upon a packing case. Customs Inspector James McCabe, working nearby, witnessed the incident, saw the bottles. The Congressman went to a telephone, called the Custom House, obtained a "free entry" order. Liquor was not mentioned in that telephone conversation. The Congressman was thereupon passed, tak- ing with...
...glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least it kept him near to the life of the sea and took care of his Manhattan houseful of wife and nondescript children...
...army canteen across the street charged five? At Montfalcon they even charged a wounded man (stretcher case) for cigarettes and by God he had to pay before he got them-correction, a shavetail did the paying; the buck didn't have any pants. F. Palmer and the Inspector-General know which side their bread is buttered on and the A. E. F. buck private knows his Y. And to those of you who know neither I'll leave the final verdict. BARNEY HOLLIS...
...practice giving away anything-unless 'beaucoup francs' were pressed on them by the soldiery." It happened that while I was reading this letter, there was on my desk five typewritten folios, embracing 1,250 pages, covering the report of the Inspector General of the A. E. F., on the investigation of the Y. M. C. A. with the American Expeditionary Forces...