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Word: foon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China's penalty for opium smuggling,* requested deportation, in the absence of an extradition treaty between the U. S. and China it seemed legally impossible. Vice Consul Kao's suspension however removed some of the complications of the case. He and Mrs. Kao were arrested, and with them Suen Foon, for 17 years Chancellor of the Chinese Consulate, in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. Kao's Catastrophe | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Died. Ng Ah Foon, 61, friend of "bosses" "Big Tim" Sullivan and Tom Foley, for three decades race-track betting commissioner to Manhattan's "Chinatown"; in Manhattan of diabetes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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