Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although congested as never before in the history of the Institution . . . we have been able to maintain the health and discipline of prisoners. . . . It has been impossible to segregate drug addicts from other prisoners, due to our congestion. I would respectfully recommend that some plan for relief of congestion be undertaken. . . ."?Report of the warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., July...
Herbert Brown, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, explained that in 1926 out of 5,120 convictions under the drug act, 1,540 persons went to jail whereas out of 37,018 convictions under the Volstead Act, only 765 men received jail sentences. Plain is the picture of what would have happened had 'leggers been sentenced to prison in the same proportion as violators of other U. S. laws...
Last week one shrewd doctor decided that she had hiccoughed so long she had forgotten what it was like not to hiccough, was therefore psychologically incapable of helping herself. He gave her a strong, nauseating drug, put her to sleep. When she awoke her mind was so occupied with her new, counter-irritating misery that she forgot to hiccough, was cured...
Only setback to steady United Drug prosperity came in the post-War deflation in which Mr. Liggett's company was threatened with insolvency. At this date, however, he had many a Rexall agent throughout the country and these Rexall agents, loyal, raised $1,500,000, helped him through the deflation period. Last year Drug, Inc. had a net income (11 months...
...Through 36 Liggett Canadian stores and the controlled Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., with 800 English stores...