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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...
It turned out that Mr. Gramm was a brother of the Lillian H. Gramm whom Congressman Michaelson married in 1906. Brother-in-law Gramm cheerfully testified that the liquor-laden trunks belonged to him, though they had been brought in under the Congressman's "free entry" permit. Did he...
The Key West jury believed Coalman Gramm's story, acquitted his brother-in-law. They took no stock in the testimony of Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alfred Oftedal, who told how Congressman Michaelson had visited him in Washington to discuss liquor and smuggling. Mr. Oftedal said that the Congressman had...
In 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...
The New York Central R. R. was rumored to have a merger in process of preparation; the Pennsylvania R. R. offered no plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such...