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...agent obeyed, found Mile Salzmann to be aged 21, pretty, romantic. The agent also was young. Under the Swiss moon he made love to his victim. Presently he knew that "Esther" meant "shipment"; "uncle'' meant "Customs officer." "Money" therefore meant a bribe. He had unearthed a smuggling plot which had permitted at least $1,000,000 in watches to enter the U. S. free of duty, defrauding the Government of $350,000 a year...
...agent pursued his conquest, went in for details. He heard further from trusting lips that because Manhattan Customs examiners searched only one in ten cases of goods on their piers, Mile Salzmann & friends would ship nine cases of watches, one case of earthenware or bronze pieces, consign the whole shipment as undutiable earthenware and bronze. For their plan to succeed and the dummy cases only to be searched, corruption of some of the Manhattan Customs examiners was obviously necessary...
...Partisan, he has made no great name for himself in the Senate. Seniority of service has elevated him to the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, a position that gives him a small patronage potency The most famed legislation bearing his name prohibits the shipment of firearms through the mails. This measure was handed him ready-made by the Post Office Department and he did not even perspire in getting the Senate to pass...
Professor Cole also announced that the first shipment of the larger Foxwell collection is on its way. Mr. Eaion obtained for $125,000 this collection of English works on business subjects which the well-known British economies; had been gathering for twenty years...
...France's oldest noble families who owns the Pommery & Greno caves at Rheims. (The Count, already indicted for smuggling with Go-Bart Co. is now in France under $25,000 bond [TIME, June 17].) By collusion with a customs clerk and three casks containing flower pots, the liquor shipment was put through the U. S. customs. When caught, Mr. Pratt was neither arrested by the agents nor required by Customs to pay the customary fine of $5 per bottle-a total of $14,400 in this case-for each bottle of smuggled liquor...