Word: drugging
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Giving a reverse twist to the same basic idea, Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. (5,200 stores in the midwest) approached publishers last year with the proposal: "The average chain grocery is handier to the home than the average drug store. Why not sell through us?" Alert Editor George Horace Lorimer promptly seized upon the plan for Curtis Publishing Co. Last February, Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal were on sale in a few Kroger stores; last week in 1,459; next month in 350 more. Each magazine is rolled inside a wrapper bearing the Kroger name...
...Helen Robbins, socialite wife of Herbert D. Robbins, retired Manhattan drug man (McKesson & Robbins), just home from Europe, approached a customs inspector who was about to examine her luggage. Said she: "There are twelve bottles of liquor in my trunk." Inspector Frank Shelley blinked, stammered: "But why-why did you do this? I never heard of such a case before." Retorted she: "Probably nobody ever thought of doing this before. ... I brought this liquor ... as my small gesture against Prohibition. Now you may go ahead and destroy it." Before a grinning crowd Inspector Shelley did so. "Just like the Boston...
...Portland, Me., E. H. Dunham, 31, thwarted in love, attempted to swallow poison while in a drug store. Store Manager Lyndon E. Harris saw him, hurled an egg which splattered over Dunham's waistcoat, startling him so that he spat out the poison...
...prosecutor he found it virtually im possible to discover or convict organizers of the drug traffic. They were too clever for his detective staff. One significant fact he learned by hearsay: the "big fellows" like the late rogue Arnold Rothstein, are rarely drug addicts. Nonetheless his men did make some important raids. No table were those last November and December in Greenwich Village, Times Square and Harlem...
...surveyor he found: "The forbearance of women to pains" lets them endure the pangs of drug withdrawal; bad associations were to blame for almost every drug user in New York; nine out of ten drug addicts use heroin alone, or in combination with morphine, opium, cocaine, laudanum or paregoric (opium derivative, oldtime baby soother...