Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn U. S. business and banking methods. Few succeeded at all; those who did usually compromised about dress or family customs, or between the gods. One such was Lee Fook, longtime foreign-exchange official in the National City Bank, financial adviser to New York's Chinatown. He wore horn-rimmed spectacles, occidental dress, handled and ex changed Chinatown dollars sent back to relatives in China. But not until six years ago did he adopt Christianity, to please his second wife. Last week he died, was buried. His funeral service was read by a Protestant minister, but according to Chinese...
Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities...
...York graphologist, and her collection and studies of scribbles? Nationally and internationally known people, big business organizations, detectives, lawyers, unhappy couples, misfits, underworld characters-all take odd drawings and bits of scratchings to her. She's done farming, showboating on the Mississippi, reporting in the Bowery and Chinatown 35 years ago before modern artificial atmosphere, worked behind "Five and Ten" counters-now writes and graphologizes. You scribble. It's unconscious. Rounded lines indicate a gentle, tactful person; angularity tells of shrewdness. Flowers and leaves show a friendly, unassertive person. A head profile comes from the salesman type. Mussy...
Chop Suey and the Chinese tong are as American as hashed brown potatoes; neither is known in China; both sprang up to fill a need. Tong means association. The first tong was organized in San Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled...
Author Eng Ying (Eddie) Gong, proprietor of an Americanized restaurant at No. 1 Pell Street (nucleus of Manhattan's Chinatown) observed, noted, took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...