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...hemp has been smoked since long before the beginning of the Christian Era. It was familiar to the ancient Hindus and Persians. It is smoked widely by the Arabs. Eminent European vipers have included De Quincey, Baudelaire (who once, under the influence, sketched a self-portrait, with the Colonne Vendôme in hashish perspective), Dumas, Gautier. The U. S. vogue, precisely coincident with the vogue for hot jazz, began in New Orleans a generation ago, moved up the Mississippi to Chicago, thereafter spread east and west...
Sweezy's research was on "Limitation of the Vend," and Wood's on "English Theories of Contral Banking Control, 1819-1858." Both papers were revisions of theses presented for the doctorate degree at Harvard last spring...
...autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail or the edge of a chromium table to peek at the new models...
Shortly after the gold seizure Joseph T. Higgins, local Collector of Internal Revenue, slapped income tax liens for $740,000 on Zelik Josefowitz, Z. Josefowitz and Frieda Josefowitz of Zurich, Switzerland; for $258,000 on Gregori Josefowitz, care of Lawrence Mead, 20 Place Vendôme, Paris; for $24.50 on Selman Josefowitz, also of Zurich. The two major items consisted of 1934, 1935 and 1936- taxes of $573,000 plus penalties...
...named Clyde Hager. Right out of Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw in a bar of Arabian perfumed soap...