Word: doping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House are altogether too pliable in the dexterous hands of Franklin Roosevelt last week had a taste of the President's professional hospitality. Mr. Roosevelt set aside an evening for a heart-to-heart with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. With high hopes of getting "inside dope" from an evening's interview, the editors marched in. The President greeted them cordially, talked to them at length, hardly allowed them to get a question in edgewise. Coming out by the same door wherein they went, one editor summarized their off-the-record interview...
This the President thought was enough news for the Press for one week. Newshawks sunned themselves in Miami, embroidered on his adventures, filled up their columns with idle "dope" stories which they could have written just as well in Washington...
...nine meets B. U. Wednesday on Soldiers Field, if the weather man does not object, and is favored to win an easy game. As yet, the starting pitcher has not been named, but the dope favors Frank Wood, the starter against Georgetown...
...Washington, narcotics agents raided the headquarters of a New York-Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago dope ring, seized $20,000 worth of heroin, arrested...
Last week the U. S. Treasury Department suddenly dropped a dragnet across the land, snared more than 2,000 smugglers, dope peddlers, bootleggers and counterfeiters. Its aims: 1) to test the effectiveness of a nation-wide crime drive; 2) to train Treasury agents in concerted action; 3) to "impress the criminal element with the tremendous Federal powers against them"; 4) to show the nation that the well-publicized Department of Justice is not the only Federal agency that can catch lawbreakers. Pondered since last summer, the drive had been actively planned for a fortnight. One day last week the Treasury...