Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shall progressive Turkey set an example to the world, drastically curb narcotic shipments, voluntarily curtail opium growing in Turkey...
...present it is planned to hold six Model Committee meetings, on March 6. Hearings will be held on, British Action in Palestine. Intellectual Cooperation, and Opium. The problems and methods of reaching solutions will be rigorously copied from actual League procedure. On March 7 there will be a Model Plenary session, in which the two or three best reports of the day before will be presented by Raporteurs. Owing to the controversial nature of these subjects, the delegates will have a chance to put forth their country's points of view. In the afternoon a more formal session will convene...
Customs Inspector John Sterling, whose duty it is to comb for drugs all ships arriving in Manhattan from the Orient, paused beside the British motor-freighter Raby Castle last week and sniffed. "Opium!" said he, and set about with his crew of 40 to find it. They went down to the base of the forward mast, deep in the hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce...
...will be as follows: a committee to investigate the possibilities of an European federation; a commission to investigate intellectual cooperation; the Permanent Mandates commission, headed by W.R. Furlong '33, and D. H. Popper '32; an assembly commission appointed to investigate the possibilities of creating a permanent minorities commission; the opium commission; and a committee to investigate the feasibility of bringing the Bank of International Settlements into closer coordination with the League of Nations...
Today, of course, the Man of Steel is doing his stern best to stamp religion ("Opium for the People") out of Russia...