Word: clan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 of other Chinese in the U.S., the Hueys did it by playing a game as intricate and baffling as any Chinese puzzle ever devised: the slot racket...
...been lost in the great earthquake of 1906. Old Huey Bing Dai, haled before federal authorities on an anonymous tip, confessed that he alone was responsible for 57 such fraudulent entries into the U.S. Along with others, he had arranged slots for more than 250 men of his clan who had lived in the Cantonese village of Sai Kay; most of them became laundrymen in San Francisco...
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...
After hearing the stories from the clan, the feds estimated that a good 50% of San Francisco's Chinatown are illegal residents; they hope they will be able to halt the flow by fining and jailing Chinese who deal directly in slot contacts, in the past year and a half have prosecuted 69. The U.S. probably will not prosecute the others, since deporting them would be impracticable. But all this did not ease the situation of old Huey Bing Dai, who gave everything away. "The whole town's mad at him," said a young Chinese-American. "He will...
Spree in Paris. Peggy Guggenheim, member of the wealthy copper clan, had a conventional Manhattan upbringing before she married into the lost generation. With her dilettante first husband Author Laurence Vail, she gave some of Paris' wildest parties, posed for Photographer Man Ray in a cloth-of-gold, fringed sheath, balancing a foot-long cigarette holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum...