Word: heroine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irish leader was Edward Cleary, a "graduate" of Sing Sing. He was found drunk in bed. In his dormitory and in the cosy little study he had fitted up for himself and his staff were three 10-gal. milk cans of home brew, a "deck" of heroin, a refrigerator bulging with contraband provisions which he sold or bartered for services...
...Helpern pictured the addicts passing a filthy hypodermic syringe from one to another. Impatient to flood their veins with heroin, they did not bother to sterilize the needle which transferred germs from one man's blood to another...
...horsemen know that racehorses are sometimes drugged with laudanum before a dishonest race to make them sleepy and slow, with heroin or cocaine to speed them up. They call the last race at some tracks the "drugstore race" because some of the horses are certain to have been drugged. Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that...
...from Istanbul to Sofia. Nine narcotic factories are now operating in Bulgaria. Largest and most important is Balkans Products Co., Ltd., which opened a new factory at Radomir in October. In two months Balkans Products produced a "snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France and Germany in double-bottomed trunks, en route for the U. S., Egypt and the Far East. One kilo of heroin equals 250,000 medical doses. At this rate Balkans Products is producing 187,500,000 medical doses monthly...
...Mark's in-the-Bouwerie, where Peter Stuyvesant lies buried. Medicine was represented by mysterious, some say hypnotic Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 52, son-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo, fashionable neurologist, psychiatrist, director of the Park Avenue Hospital where died Actress Jeanne Eagels of an overdose of heroin and rich young William E. Swift of Chicago by suicide (TIME, June 9, Sept. 1, 1930). The Episcopal Church was represented by the conservative vestry of St. Mark's, and somewhere in the background by New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning. Midway between was Dr. William Norman...