Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world could not ignore. Until 1840 Shanghai was little more than a second rate Chinese city sitting on a mud flat at the mouth of the turbulent Yangtze River, but in 1842 Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today it is the greatest port in the East, fifth most...
When a Vice-Admiral, a reformed Communist, a Rural Dean and a pioneer aviator meet in Geneva with an assortment of Germans, South Africans and Americans, they might discuss armaments, the opium traffic or a universal language. Such a group was in Geneva last week, but it was simple piety, not economics or politics, that brought it together. Misleadingly ominous were the invitations sent out for the meeting...
...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...
Brash Commissioner Wu lately let it be known that dignified Judge Pan Kuo-tsze of the District Court was a confirmed opium-smoker. Judge Pan's colleagues immediately indicted Commissioner Wu for slander and after deliberation sentenced him to be publicly spanked in the market place. Outraged Commissioner Wu appealed personally to the highest authority, General Han Fu-chu, Chairman and Pacification Commissioner of the Shantung Provincial Government. But General Han was a friend of Judge Pan. Not only did he approve the sentence but "as a mark of his personal displeasure" slapped Commissioner Wu once on the face...