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While still new at the game, he wrote a naive item about some "hidden gambling dens" on Turk Street. Police raided the joints and the next night the gamblers asked Caen to come down for a drink. "I thought they were being good guys," he says, "but they slipped me...
As Vancouver's new-broom mayor, rambunctious Gerry McGeer had started his sweeping by firing 23 policemen for letting gambling dens and brothels run wide open. Last week, as chairman of the city's Police Commission, he sat in judgment on their appeals. Vancouverites were shaken by the...
Big Wages. In 1938 he turned up in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham as works manager of the Hispano-Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea...
The immense and monstrous traffic not only sought to weaken Chinese resistance; it provided Japanese business with a big investment opportunity: in Tientsin alone, 35% of all Japanese capital was used to set up opium shops and dens. In large part it financed both the Japanese Army and Chinese puppet...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill...