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...immigration irregularities, turn up alien wrongdoers. Famed for their relentlessness are the Post Office Department inspectors, prepared to spend a day or a lifetime bringing to justice mail robbers, perpetrators of postal frauds. The Treasury has a bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department to trace passport frauds, in the Interior Department to detect crimes committed on Indian reservations, in the Interstate...
...Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. . . . Paul de Kruif and I were long ago associated as contributors to Hearst's International Magazine when he was writing a series of articles on problems of medicine and I, God save us!, was writing a series on the evils of dope in the underworld...
Uncle Harry is a dope. I know you will say that I should not speak this way of my elders, and I remember how you got Dad to cut my allowance in half when well, there is no need of mentioning that incident, but I think you will agree on Uncle Harry, for you always said he was a little queer...
Another little ruse that some of the Andover boys at Harvard have found very satisfactory consists of learning all the dope on a given subject down cold, cold, cold. It doesn't make so much difference what subject you pick, as long as you know it backwards and forwards. Then, when you tackle a question on the exam, you start your answer by repeating the question on your paper; then you rack your brain for some way of connecting the question up to the subject which you know cold. Having found this missing link, you write that in and then...
Commissioner MacCormick could not change Welfare Island overnight from a crowded, filthy firetrap to a model institution, but he could and did put Cleary, Rao & Co. in solitary confinement to await possible dope-peddling trials. The Commissioner sent narcotic addicts and diseased prisoners to the hospital, while young prisoners were segregated. He took from the perverts their frippery, sent them squealing to the barber to have their locks trimmed, saw that they remained alone in their own eating and living quarters. He charged the deputy warden with breaking almost every rule in the city's penological code, stripped Warden...