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...pawed the trunkfuls, cratefuls of lavish riches brought in by Mr. & Mrs. Dodge last month on the S. S. Ile de France are still marveling. A panorama of silks, satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects of any other traveler whose last initial was D. Yet Mrs. Dodge had declared only $17,000 worth of imports. "Did she think we were that dumb?" asked inspectors who had pounced on her ostentatious quantities of luggage, appraised its contents of contraband at about...
Near Portsmouth, N. H., Charles Waggoner, crippled and confined to a wheelchair for 15 years, rolled himself from his farm across twelve miles of rutted country roads toward the ocean, rolled to a pier, rolled to the railing, plunged himself into the water, drowned...
...last week occurred what might possibly be the next thing to a trip for the Senator when his wife, Mamie McConnell Borah, sailed out of New York aboard the S. S. Mauretania for her first trip to Europe. A mix-up about her passport caused a flurry at the pier until the French Consul General discovered that her husband was none other than the great Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Borah friends in Washington speculated on what influence, if any, Mrs. Borah's excursion might have on the foreign policy of the U. S. Would she return with such...
April 25-May 3?Chicago national motor boat show; at Navy Pier, Chicago...
...scores of thousands of U. S. tourists who returned through the Port of New York in the last two years, the Treasury Department last week sent a questionnaire. Promised immunity, each was asked whether he had given the customs inspectors at the pier a gratuity, whether any had been asked. Purpose of the quiz: to break up petty customs graft, to smash a ring of narcotic smugglers...