Word: heroine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the wealthy boss of "protective corporations" in Manhattan's fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. His gorillas slugged, knifed, threw lye in the eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake ("Gurrah")* Shapiro, on racketeering charges. People who knew about him began disappearing, also. Two were murdered...
Morphine is the favorite drug of addicts. Next in popularity are opium-smoking ("rolling the log") and heroin. Cocaine is not so widely used as formerly...
...Drug addiction does not lead to perpetration of violent crimes. Said Dr. Lawrence Kolb, top man in the field: "Both heroin and morphine in large doses change drunken, fighting psychopaths into sober, cowardly, nonaggressive idlers. . . ." High cost of bootleg drugs, however, practically forces addicts of small incomes to resort to sneak thievery ("rooting on the derrick...
...Japan's Chinese puppets to turn over their properties in exchange for stock in the new firms, or face outright confiscation within ten days. Dispatches from Peking reported that in Nanking, Chinese peddlers are now employed in large numbers by Japanese narcotic jobbers to peddle opium and heroin openly at cut rates in paper packets selling for as little as 5? Chinese (1?). This is against the law but the peddlers go about pistol-on-hip, while Chinese policemen have been deprived of firearms by the Japanese...
...gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing an interest in heroin and morphine. This the Tong members were able to supply him through a group of white friends, who apparently had a reciprocal treaty for opium trading with the Tong...