Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Russell was glad to report that when Turkey's Dictator Kemal Pasha announced last December that he was joining the world fight on illicit opium, Kemal meant what he said. Three huge Turkish opium factories have been closed. By the Ghazi's orders poppy cultivation has been "limited to the actual needs of medicine and science...
...Moscow cupboards she keeps tons of jam (most Russians fancy gooseberry with the seeds left in). Lately this cupboard has been almost bare. Nine greedy Comrades, including the Warehouse Manager, have been stealing jam (especially gooseberry), peddling it for sky-high prices on Moscow's illicit "open markets." Last week they squealed confessions, begged mercy...
...Washington, the Prohibition Bureau gave 100 Ib. of lead pipe confiscated from illicit distilleries to be cast into toy soldiers for poor children...
Representing all parts of Belgium, this Brussels demonstration was against the proposed tax increase on beer and other drinkables which Belgian legislators want to jack sky-high in the name of Temperance. Demanding "reasonable taxes." the grocers & wineshop-keepers charged that Belgian "bootleggers are making fortunes by selling illicit alcohol while honest shopkeepers pay all the taxes...
...differs but little . . . from the one raging within the unhappy borders of Russia. . . ." What to do? The Holy Father counsels Mexican Catholics to obey the law but to protest unremittingly. "To approve such an iniquitous law or spontaneously to give to it true and proper co-operation is undoubtedly illicit and sacrilegious. But absolutely different is the case of him who yields to such unjust regulations solely against his will. . . . His behavior consequently is not much different from that of one who, having been robbed of his belongings, is obliged to ask his unjust despoiler for at least...