Word: dope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized in 1930 and has headed ever since. Last week Commissioner Anslinger, 62, a Pennsylvania Dutchman who knows more about the worldwide drug traffic than any other man on earth. reported to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a growing narcotic menace: Communist China's $60 million-a-year dope trade, deliberately and officially pursued to earn foreign exchange, "finance political activities, and spread addiction among free peoples...
Unlike the Chinese Nationalists, who executed as many as 1,000 dope dealers annually in their highly successful efforts to reduce dope addiction, the Communists, while forbidding drugs to party members, organized the National Trading Co. to distribute narcotics under Foreign Ministry supervision...
...state censers to ban the movie Desires on Sundays reveals the consistency of their policies, which we have often had the pleasure of seeing put into action. The movie begins at the presentation of a morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension, all mankind. Their morality...
Loulou had the bauble back safe in its rightful owner's hands within two hours, with no one the wiser. On one of his visits to Montmartre, he rounded up the notorious Mancuso brothers, international dope peddlers who presumably held the Paris concession from that great cartelist of dope, Lucky Luciano...
...satisfied that he was not being followed, returned to his car for a small package of opium for a nobleman in a nearby apartment. At this point, the cops jumped out of their Buick convertible, caught him with the goods and arrested the onetime foe of Parisian vice for dope peddling...