Word: opiumeators
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Ships regularly smuggling opium into China are chiefly British, Japanese and Norwegian-the British being credited in one dispatch with 76 vessels, and the Japanese padding their sea smuggling with much running of opium overland from Manchukuo. In 1936 on April Fool's Day, dealing in opium was established as a Chinese Government monopoly, and about $3,500.000 per month in opium license taxes go to the Chief of the Military Affairs Commission of the Nanking Government. Last week famed Chiang Kaishek, Dictator of China, resigned as Chief of the Military Affairs Commission, also resigned his numerous other Government...
...been kidnapped by Goring or Stalin by Voroshilov. In fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the late great War Lord Chang Tso-lin who was assassinated by Japanese agents in their greatest...
...respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place of the dignified Roman death he had courted, he spent the night vomiting, begging Caulaincourt to give him another potion, spinning out his disconnected, feverish explanation of his rise and fall. Ending with this bitter scene, Caulaincourt...
...ruling body in Moscow, recalls the days when Generalissimo Chiang fought with the assistance of Communist subsidies. Today Nanking is a modern Capitalist capital and Chiang's bureaucrats keep fit with daily calisthenics dictated by his New Life Movement, appear nattily efficient and most different from the opium-soaked Chinese often found warming seats of power in the provinces...
...reason for the San Francisco earthquake, as all cinemaddicts have long been well aware, was not a geological fault but rather certain unfortunate conditions in the city's night life. Before the Legion of Decency started, there was generally supposed to be white slavery, opium and hatchet-work in Chinatown. San Francisco, bringing the earthquake up to date, makes it plain that its real cause lay in the fact that Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father...