Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States decided not to take advantage of the naivete of her rebirth and therefore remitted ten of the twenty-five millions due to her as Boxer indemnity. This has proved to be profitable altruism, for since then America and American people have stood highest in the esteem of the Chinaman. And now the foresighted British, taking a lead out of our book, have announced the gift of their remaining Boxer money to the cause of Chinese education...
CALIFORNIA: The first Chinaman ever to be impaneled on a jury in San Francisco was Frank H. Tape, 30, born and bred in America...
...whole scene of League activity at Geneva was immensely impressive to an outside observer. Not a single personal discord between individual delegates marred the completely conciliatory spirit of the sessions of 1922. It was no less than thrilling to see Spaniard and Swede, Frenchman and Brazilian, Greek, and Chinaman conferring amiably and pleasantly together,--often over a cigar, or on a stroll along the Lake Front in the sunshine,--over world problems and concerns that were of common interest to them both. No one yet knows the immense number of international difficulties, small and great, that have been settled...