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Such narcotic optimism infuriates many people, particularly William Randolph Hearst whose newspapers are the only chain in the U. S. to crusade endlessly against "dope." Up to last week the many antinarcotic sessions at Geneva have all proved abortive. No sooner had the latest League Conference met than its delegates fell to quarreling, failed to approach agreement on any of the oft-proposed, oft-rejected world narcotic limitation plans...
Where oil is struck, there is a boom. Where there is a boom there is easy money and to it flock swindlers, 'leggers, dope-sellers, gamblers, prostitutes and pimps. In eastern Texas last month oil began to gush out of Rusk and Gregg Counties (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week in Gregg County, the town of Kilgore and the nearby tent-town of "Little Juarez" had grown so rowdy, so full of wastrels and misconduct, that the Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts...
...tangled web of clews uncovered in the investigation of the strangle murder of beautiful Vivian Gordon, three things stood out in sharp relief against the murky background of the dead girl's past: Dope. Stock racketeering. Vice. "If these lines, taken from New York daily newspapers,* no doubt make sensational and, for its purpose, effective reading matter, one's admiration for the effectiveness vanishes when one thinks of a child reading them...
...rival circus. The rascally son of the privilege car's rascally proprietor unexpectedly returns from jail to take up counterfeiting. There are also various subplots which flow back and forth across a stage crowded with amusing, if too finely drawn, circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran, brother of the playwright and the man who telephoned "Mrs. Margolies" in The Front Page). High point of the drama comes with the second act curtain, when the circus rallying cry of "Hey, rube!" goes up as the train is attacked...
...introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...