Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last of the fires sputter down. By then 514 city blocks (4.1 sq. mi.) had gone, 28,188 buildings, including the homes of 250,000. Libraries, theaters, restaurants, courts, jails, the financial district, South of Market, the fabulous Palace -- all gone. North of Market, little remained of Chinatown but a labyrinth of underground chambers once home to brothels and opium dens. About 2,500 had died...
...Liberty was only a couple of years older. His father Moses, a cantor, died when the boy was eight, so he hit the streets in search of work. Izzy sang for pennies anywhere he could find listeners, finally landing a job as a singing waiter in a raffish Chinatown bistro; it was there that he wrote his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy, in partnership with the cafe's pianist. When the song was published in 1907, a printer's error had given him a new name: I. Berlin...
...Herald Examiner reported that Bradley, who earns $102,000 annually as mayor, was engaged last year as an adviser to a Chinatown bank that paid him $18,000. Bradley also earned at least $70,000 as a director of a savings and loan bank for ten years. Although both matters were on public record and on the surface did not seem to represent a conflict of interest, the facts beneath the surface suggested otherwise. It turns out that city deposits in the Chinatown bank were doubled after Bradley made a phone call to the Los Angeles treasurer. The savings...
RAWG joined the Greater Boston Legal Services, Local 26 and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in backing the legislative efforts of CPAWC, a Chinatown based community organization. RAWG, the only area student group actively involved in the lobbying effort, participated with CPAWC in Harvard's multi-ethnic VISIONS conference in February, said Liao...
...been said that the two places where minorities band together most are ghettos and colleges. An unlikely pair, to be certain. Ghetto minorities--in Chinatown, say--gather together simply because they live in dense, racially uniform communities. Yet Harvard, with a more diverse population than most other communities, is no ghetto. The Admissions Office prides itself on its percentages, only to have minority organizations steal their meaning...