Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opium. Finance Minister T. V. Soong cheerfully declared last week that China will soon have "a new and realistic opium policy...
Stimulus for this has been provided by the opium exposé of the U. S.-owned Shanghai Evening Post which mailed out questionnaires, got back answers from 170 Christian missionaries in more than 18 provinces...
According to the missionaries, not only is opium grown and consumed without restriction in six provinces (see map), but elsewhere and in provinces where it is barred by law bootleg opium and smok-easies flourish. More serious, illegal "taxes" are collected on opium in many places, graft and corruption flourish on the weed...
...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...
...other parts of the State. Within two hours they had rounded up some 300 suspects and bad characters. The ten Rangers herded the lot of them into the Baptist church, booked them from the pulpit. They were a measly collection. Upon them were found no guns, three tubes of opium, three pints of whiskey. Forty were cut out for detention, the rest were hustled out of town. Two of those detained were wanted for murder, three for bank robbery. Prized prisoners were placed in the choir stall, chained by the neck...