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...Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability to handle it. The best intentioned young man in the world, he is temperamentally unfitted to be a soldier and, despite painful efforts to break himself of the habit, he is a narcotics addict. Son Chang had a problem to face that the wily old Tiger was spared-the partially united China of the Nationalist government. Old Chang Tso-lin, living in the days of the great war lords, concentrated his intrigues on Manchuria, Northern China and Japan. When Japan invaded Manchuria and captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Almond-Eyed Fascismo? | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

Shots: A drug addict locked in a room with a woman he is about to murder; Armstrong dying on his way to the hospital, hearing the news of his child's birth over the police radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Georges Gauchet, 25, well brought up son of a millionaire, squandered a fortune on Montmartre, became a dope addict, was cut off by his family. Impoverished, he broke into a jeweler's store on the fashionable Avenue Mozart, killed the jeweler with a hammer and a revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Widow | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Edith Kane Baker, wife of Manhattan Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. (First National Bank), was asked for $500,000 damages by her cousin Mrs. Mary Emma Calhoun, Manhattan real estate broker. Mrs. Baker was accused of describing her cousin to others as "a narcotic addict" who "bribed doctors and nurses to give her narcotics, and was a liar and not to be trusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...direction of complaining Mgr. Gassier; 2) that Dr. Uhler (and three others) won a libel suit a year ago against one Kemble Kenneth Kennedy, 29, friend and protege of Governor Long who had published an obscene, yawping edition of the University Whangdoodle, calling Dr. Uhler a narcotic addict and a lecher. For this Protege Kennedy was sentenced to a year in jail, was at once reprieved by Governor Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cane Juice | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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