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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among the birds and animals until Helen, a parrot, told him to "go to hell...
...December, 1927, Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson, of Chicago, born 51 years ago in Norway, once a schoolteacher, now a William ("Big Bill") Hale Thompson political supporter, asked for and received "free entry" for a trip to Panama. In January, 1928, he re-entered the U. S. through Key West, his six trunks passing without inspection by customs agents. At the Jacksonville railroad station a baggageman traced a liquor trickle to a broken bottle in one of these trunks. Federal agents seized the trunks, removed the liquor, shipped them to Washington where, upon claiming them, their owner was identified...
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...
When the Canadian schooner I'm Alone, freighted with 2,800 cases of liquor to be smuggled into the U. S., went down 200 miles off the Louisiana shore under U. S. Coast Guard gunfire last fortnight, inter- national law experts were ready to stand up and cheer with delight (TIME, April 1). Here was a case to argue endlessly. It bristled with fine points, with nice distinctions. Many an analogy was drawn between rum-running in 1929 and African slave-running...
...claimed the I'm Alone was in Body-of-Water Two (10.8 miles off shore) when picked up and pursued by the cutter Walcott. Captain John Thomas Randall of the I'm Alone insisted he was in Body-of-Water Three (14 to 15 miles off shore) when spoken. The Treasury justified its pursuit as "hot and continuous" under the Tariff Act. Great Britain held that such pursuit could only begin within territorial waters (Body-of-Water One), and could not reasonably extend beyond Body-of- Water...