Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the CRIMSON had a picture of me which I liked a great deal but after it had appeared once some scoundrel from Chinatown came in and claimed it as a portrait of his uncle. The CRIMSON rather than doubt my parentage and ancestry, gave him the picture...
Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...
...Chinatown's Lee. Unlucky Dr. C. T. Wang who was beaten, stabbed and mauled by patriotic students (TIME, Oct. 5). because as Nanking's Foreign Minister "his policy toward Japan was not positive enough," recovered partly from his wounds last week. Thrice stabbed, he worried most about his badly beaten knees. Doctors said that if he walks again he will probably limp. Temporarily Dr. Wang was replaced in Nanking's Cabinet by a Chinese born in Manhattan's famed Chinatown, ascetic, erudite Professor Frank...
...Chinatown Tong feuds and peace-conferences. Like many a newsgatherer, he often has been pressed into service as an emergency fireman, surgeon, bodyguard. He is married, has had one daughter, who died...
...time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese...