Word: chinaman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate will not be a Chinaman. But so strong was resurgent Republican confidence running last week that G. O. Partisans felt sure that whoever does get the nomination would be getting no empty honor...
...have it!" Said Publisher Bernarr Adolphus MacFadden (Physical Culture, True Stories, True Romances}: "If the nomination should come to me, it is an honor no American could afford to refuse. . . ." Said General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler: "Give me $5,000,000 and I'll elect a Chinaman President...
Nothing so grates on the ear of a sensitive Chinese as the epithet "Chinaman." Last week that word rang through the Supreme Court of the United States of Mexico as two swarthy Mexicans stoutly protested that in killing one of the Chinese people they had not committed murder...
...that a Chinese named Jose Chong was robbed and murdered in Sinaloa State by Defendants Teodoro Romero and Paolo Cavada. Convicted, they have been fighting their case through higher and higher courts ever since, on the contention that a Chinaman is not a man in the true Mexican sense...
...Since it was only a Chinaman we do not think our crime was murder," pleaded Defendant Romero last week. "It was not even homicide," cried Defendant Cavada. "Only a Chinaman...