Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communication with the U. S.* From an A. T. & T. radio station at Dixon, Calif, calls will go direct from the U. S. to Shanghai removing the previous necessity of routing them through Japan. Switchboard work at the U. S. end will be done in the company's Chinatown office in San Francisco...
...Muralist Bernard Zakheim, they showed the development of modern medicine, from the ancient purifying brazier to the xray. Not far away San Francisco's best known sculptor, Beniamino Bufano, was putting the finishing touches to a 14-ft. statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen, to be erected in Chinatown. Both statue and murals will be paid for with Federal funds...
When the floor show is over "Chinatown Night" next week--the gentleman whose sole purpose in life is to eliminate those hardworking contestants is ushered to the microphone to the hisses and catcalls of the audience. Unless the booing is up to snuff he refuses to take over his duties. Then the "sprint" begins. There are only sixteen couples remaining from the sixty who began, and the gentleman brags that he is getting them out on an average of two a week. May the powers above bless him and have mercy on his soul in his noble endeavor...
...consumed to ashes," hang 18 more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft Riots," featured by the burning of a Negro orphanage at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue, and the sacking of an early Negro quarter (now Chinatown). In 1900 a policeman allegedly arresting a Negro woman for soliciting started another race riot...
Like Tammany in its prime, the Chinese Benevolent Association can be benevolent. It cares for its poor (throughout Depression, Manhattan's Chinatown has had no breadline), runs an employment bureau, looks out for its sick, provides funerals. Also like Tammany, it has its hostile Press...