Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was not going to be Premier, and apparently Premier Chiang slipped back into all his offices, including that which brings in $3,500,000 per month from opium. All China was meanwhile being violently jolted out of thinking about the recent kidnapping and into thinking about the drug evil. In one of the most lurid scare-campaigns in Asiatic history, coffins were hastily knocked together and balanced on top of Chinese city walls, while local authorities shouted that anybody caught selling, buying or smoking opium was going to be executed beginning New Year's Day. In Peiping...
...trouble with wholesale lapsing of insurance policies throughout Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure promotion of the numbers hawkers, who have enlisted a salesman in nearly every second-rate cigar and drug store, widened their distribution to include porters, office boys, taxi drivers, elevator operators...
...biggest (95,200) circulation of all medical publications, printed not a word about Prontosil or Prontylin. Cautious Editor Morris Fishbein, who was educated to be a pathologist, has on at least one previous occasion nearly scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter of San Francisco that dinitrophenol was a useful drug for fat people to take to reduce weight speedily. Dinitrophenol does reduce weight. But as Dr. Fishbein warily editorialized...
Like dinitrophenol, Prontosil is an aro matic coal tar product. Prontosil's full chemical formula is the disodium salt of 4-sulph-amido-phenyl-2-azo-7-acetylamino-1-hydroxynaphthalene 3.6-disulfonic acid. All doctors fear new drugs derived from coal tar. They may exhibit unexpected deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat...
Found huddled in a $1-a-day Brooklyn room was Mrs. Mae Ebbets Cadore, daughter of the late President Charles H. Ebbets of the Brooklyn Dodgers and wife of the Dodgers' famed Pitcher Leon Cadore who once hurled a 26-inning 1-to-1 tie, now peddles drug supplies. Claiming not to have received a cent from her father's $2,000,000 estate since it became involved in litigation in 1931, she complained: "I'm down to my last rags. We have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when...