Word: junketeer
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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...
...entirely "escaped" was Congressman Michaelson. The department of Justice sent an agent to trace the itinerary of the Michaelsonian junket. At Port au Prince, Haiti, the agent obtained affidavits from the police chief, customs officers, a night club proprietor. All easily recalled details of the memorable visit of the Congressman and his jolly party. The Department of Justice's interest in the Michaelson case seemed to centre around the black word "perjury...
...Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before the latter's Atlantic flight. After Col. Lindbergh's return from Paris, the Fund made him its Technical Advisor and promoted his state-to-state cross-country junket. Current Fund activities include experimental work in fog-flying and a $100,000 competition for the safest airplane...
...keep order there, why, then, by all means get out of Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian junket on camelback. He spoke as a keen, impartial eye-witness of Egypt's tendency to graft, misgovernment...
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...