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...pusher" (retail peddler) of narcotics is under irresistible pressure to win fresh converts to addiction. Each addict, in turn, is likely to become a pusher, widening the vicious circle. Reported Manhattan's General Sessions Judge Jonah Goldstein: 1) 99% of convicted narcotics peddlers are also users, and therefore peddling to insure their own supply; 2) 30% of all persons convicted of any crime are narcotics users, driven to crime because this is the only way they can raise the money ($15 to $100 a day) that they have to pay for the drugs...
...would be a curious trick of fate if this little man [Freud's half brother]-he is said to have ended up as a peddler -had through his mere existence proved to have fortuitously struck the spark that lit the future Freud's determination to trust himself alone, to resist the impulse to believe in others more than in himself, and in that way to make imperishable the name of Freud...
...Frederick Wight to testify at Goldenberg's trial. Last week Dealer Perls won his point. Found guilty of violating California's business and professional code, Dealer Goldenberg faces up to six months in jail and a $500 fine. It was the first conviction of an art-fake peddler in U.S. legal history...
...Goofed. In Chicago, after a federal agent had spent six months talking bop language to win his confidence before arresting him as a narcotics peddler, Willie Hill, 32, commented: "I'm real down. Here I thought that cat was the coolest. He turned out to be nowhere...
Early every Wednesday morning, a Polish-born ex-peddler rides in a chauffeured limousine to the Pink House, headquarters of Argentina's federal government. Smiling and confident, he takes his place among the high officials gathered for the weekly Cabinet meeting presided over by early-rising Strongman Juan Perón. The ex-peddler is José B. Gelbard, 38, a well-to-do clothing wholesaler and president of the fast-growing General Economic Confederation (C.G.E.), a government-sponsored association that speaks for Argentine business...