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...that the development of the League since it was proposed at the Paris Peace Conference ten years ago today has been phenomenal. The annual Assembly, the quarterly Council, the permanent Secretariat, the World Court, the International Labor Office, and the various committees and commissions dealing with subjects ranging from opium to the movies: these, he said, represent a thoroughly complete organization. He said that news of many League activities never reaches the United States, largely because international relations are too subtle to be treated in detail in the public press...
...Bibles" seemed pointless, hysteric. Nonetheless it formed one of two major features in a new Soviet campaign to stamp out Religion, a thing so detested by the late founder of the Soviet State, LENIN, that he caused to be displayed in Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE The second feature of last week's new anti-religious campaign was to release a series of articles by the most famed and heeded woman in Soviet Russia, a woman known simply as KRUPSKAYA. She, a widow, would be called in other lands, "Mrs. Lenin." Last...
...late famed Boss Croker of Tammany Hall. His name on the list brought mingled memories: of Tammany iniquities; of the family fight for Boss Croker's $5,000,000 estate; of a Croker son who killed himself racing automobiles; of another son who died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker race horses, bulldogs and Irish estate. Boss Croker set Richard Croker Jr. up in business with...
Simultaneous with the release of Secretary Kellogg's opium note, a Federal customs squad in Jersey City went sniffing through the Dollar liner President Harrison, just back from a world cruise with stops in China. The ship's crew included 131 Chinamen, who smiled stupidly when Inspector John Stirling ordered his men to cast the President Harrison's 90-fathom anchor chains out of their locker in the bows. Beneath the chains was a false partition. Behind the partition were 15,990 ounces of high-grade opium - the "Rooster" and "Kein Chung" brands- worth some...
...largest U. S. opium-smuggling catch in years, perhaps in all time. The Dollar Line was in danger of a fine of $400,000 for what was presumably the work of skulking yellow employees. At trial, a point in the Dollar Line's favor will be that, some time ago, it invited the U. S. to maintain customs officers aboard its ships. The U. S. declined...