Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's teeming Chinatown (pop. about 30,000), the man most hated last week was one Huey Bing Dai. The wrinkled man of 80 had not shown his solemn face in the streets for weeks, for thanks to his help the Justice Department had cracked one of the biggest cases of illegal immigration in its history. After a seven-month investigation federal authorities reported that Huey Bing Dai's clan had secretly and illegally moved most of the male inhabitants of an entire Chinese village to the U.S. over a period of 50-odd years. Like untold thousands...
When the news of his confession spread through Chinatown, the elders of the Huey clan sensed the crisis, met in a laundry on Leavenworth Street, decided to parade into Assistant U.S. Attorney James B. Schnake's office and ask for mercy...
Some of the poems here are not clear. John Ashbury's Chinatown, for instance, is filled with small startling things--"when the firebug grated a lemon"--which only jounce; taken as a whole, the poem is dreamy and shapeless...
Died. Jean Schwartz, 78, Hungarian-born oldtime vaudeville pianist and songwriter, who composed Chinatown, My Chinatown (with longtime Partner William Jerome), Al Jolson's Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, and Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
Little Man in Chinatown (Jim Lowe; Dot). The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese. The teaser: "In case you wonder what this story is. here it is. here it is. here...