Word: rum
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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...
...large proportion will be exported, China buying more than any other single country. The French Government, indignant at the popularity shown by U. S. cigarets over its own products, last week gave its factories instructions how to duplicate U. S. brands. These directions read: "... Soak the wet leaves in rum for 24 hours, add some brown sugar, some glycerine, chop up the leaves, dry them, pulverize them, add perfume to taste...
...Moines a jury of men and women retired at 9:30 a. m. and returned to the court room at 8:30 p. m. with the verdict that bay rum sold in three-ounce bottles at Woolworth's 5 & 10 Cent Stores was an intoxicating beverage within the meaning...
...Last week Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman announced that eight new 75-ft. cutters, 16 smaller patrol boats, were being sent into the Great Lakes to combat rum-smuggling, raising U. S. vessels there to 100. At the same time it was stated that machine guns would be dismounted from smaller craft, in shoal water near the Canadian shore, promiscuous shooting bring international complications. Last week rum runners slipped through the Detroit blockade in broad daylight, landed their cargoes when a patrol boat left its post for gasoline...
...ballast, the Falke clanked out of Hamburg harbor for the coast of Poland. The Falke's crew became interested three days later, when they rolled idly off a Polish beach at dawn while motor boats came out to meet them carrying 125 swart, excitable passengers smelling of rum and perfumed hair tonic, speaking Spanish...