Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold, not as money, but as a mere commodity. . . . In short, it is a mere agreement of barter or swapping of commodities. If in 1903 the contract had been that 30 years later the maker would pay to the holder of each bond 100 piculs of Chinese opium, how would the case stand? Since 1903 the Congress, having the power to do so, has forbidden the importation of opium . . . and made the possession of it, in ordinary hands, a criminal offense. . . . "And so it follows that Public Resolution No. 10 is in my opinion valid, that the gold clause...
...blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller of the U. S. revealed that in 1933 Bulgaria imported enough acetic acid anhydride to manufacture 13,000 Ib. of heroin, four times the legitimate needs of the entire world...
...been respectively awarded the first and second prizes in the Bowdoin Prize Essay contest for excellence in English essay writing. The awards carry stipends of $500 and $300 each. Boorstin's subject was "The Unspoken Laminations on History with Illustrations from Gibbon," while Abrams wrote on "The Effect of Opium and Other Drugs on English Literature...
...real and serious business. Just as at Geneva all important transactions are committee meetings, which will in this instance occupy five Harvard and Radcliffe classrooms all morning and all afternoon. Reorganization of the League, Economic and Constitutional Reconstruction of Eastern Europe, Administration of Mandates. Social questions such as opium, will be thrashed out by five o'clock this afternoon in the various sessions. Though no Junior Leaguers the lasses of the congress are socially-minded enough to anticipate eagerly the dinner and ball at the Continental Hotel which will reward two days of hard work, allow the billets passed last...
...head of the committee on "Reorganization of the League," Edward Geramia of Rhode Island State College and Miss Margaret Thompson of Mount Holyoke College as chairman of the two subcommittees of the committee on "Intellectual Cooperation;" Miss Barbara Meeker of Connecticut College as chairman of the committee on "The Opium Convention," A. A. Rosen of Yale University as chairman of the committee on "Mandates," and Betty Muther of Wellesley College as chairman of the committee on "German Refugees...