Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many strange things bobbed up last week when investigators probed in the affairs of McKesson & Robbins, the great drug firm which had been defrauded by an expert crook. Among the strangest were old copies of Drug Topics found in the company's files which declared that McKesson & Robbins had "sponsored" a nationwide lecture tour in 1936 and 1937 "to consolidate the sentiment of retailers, manufacturers and businessmen generally behind the Robinson-Patman Law." The lecturer was Congressman Wright Patman of Texarkana...
When the advertisements appeared in Drug Topics two years ago, Congressman Patman did not bother to deny publicly the company's claim. Last week he denied it with heat: "McKesson & Robbins has never paid me in connection with anti-chain store legislation or anything else." Mr. Patman said he got his money from the Brady Speakers Bureau in Manhattan...
...Last week Mr. Mackenzie, who used to be a druggist in P. T. Barnum's home town of Bethel, Conn., was reported to have received $6,900 per year as lobbyist for McKesson & Robbins, the drug firm of Crook Philip Musica-Coster...
...books and found them showing such good profit that he did not bother to investigate Mr. Coster personally before arranging additional bank credit for Girard & Co. Next year he helped Coster borrow from Connecticut bankers $1,000,000 with which Coster bought the 105-year-old drug firm of McKesson & Robbins...
Fortnight ago McKesson & Robbins went into temporary equity receivership (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week Treasurer Thompson appeared before New York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall to tell how his suspicions of the company's crude drug department, which reported profits yearly but always "plowed them back" into inventory had finally forced a showdown. Mr. McCall decided to arrest Messrs. Coster and Dietrich, who ran McKesson & Robbins' mysterious crude drug department...