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...eight people in the Banker's party (including a son, a daughter-in-law, grandchildren) were given free entry of the port because his trip had been on government business. But Banker Morgan, unaware of the honored privilege, had already declared his luggage and permitted a customs inspector to open three suitcases and examine their contents. Perhaps never had so great a banker appeared in so happy a light...
...Dunbar, Washington postoffice inspector, volunteered that he had tricked Mrs. Dennett into sending her pamphlet to a "Mrs. Carl A. Miles" (himself), at Grottoes, Va. An official of the Daughters of the American Revolution, he said, had urged him to attack...
Thus, more efficiency for the B. & O., more kudos for George B. Ecker, its inspector of fuel economy...
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...
...inspector asked the Congressman if he had any liquor. The Congressman replied that he had four bottles of whiskey, but as he was a Government official returning from an official mission he could not be stopped. The inspector dipped into one bag and brought up four bottles which he set conspicuously upon a packing case. Customs Inspector James McCabe, working nearby, witnessed the incident, saw the bottles. The Congressman went to a telephone, called the Custom House, obtained a "free entry" order. Liquor was not mentioned in that telephone conversation. The Congressman was thereupon passed, tak- ing with...