Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baudelaire's imagination, sensuality had tragic grandeur. He lived with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
...honor to be described by the League of Nations as "an international menace," then Yasha Katzenberg, 50, is an honorable man. The League so described him last year when U. S. delegates to its committee on narcotics control complained that Japan was supplying Katzenberg's agents with opium and morphine in China for smuggling into the U. S. His dope ring, built up after Repeal spoiled a fine livelihood for him, was reputed to be on a $10,000,000 scale. When Rumania threw him out this year, he was seized in Greece, extradited to the U. S. Last...
Morphine is the favorite drug of addicts. Next in popularity are opium-smoking ("rolling the log") and heroin. Cocaine is not so widely used as formerly...
...conquest of China, he claims, the Japanese sold monopolies in gambling, prostitution and opium to racketeers. But individual officers and police (there are five distinct Japanese police forces in Manchuria, often at odds) sold protection to other racketeers and kept for themselves money intended to pay for Japanese arms. Vespa organized gang raids against rivals of the monopoly (his European birth minimizing interdepartmental conflict, since officers blamed him rather than the army). A fascist and an admirer of Mussolini, Vespa nevertheless believes that "the nations of the world are committing a most terrible mistake in dealing with the Japanese...
...were advised by Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium and heroin openly at cut rates in paper packets selling for as little as 5? Chinese (1?). This is against the law but the peddlers go about pistol-on-hip, while Chinese policemen have been deprived of firearms by the Japanese...