Word: fu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the white race, com posed of some 520,000,000 out of a total population of about 1,700,000,000, controls eight-ninths of the habitable earth. He suggested that there were four possible solutions of the color problem: 1) amalgamation by miscegenation; 2) coresidence without fu sion; 3) 'disfranchisement of the col ored population; 4) segregation into separate communities. He inclined to the belief that the last will be the solution, and foresaw that in 100 years or so, by natural processes, a sort of free state of Negroes would develop in the Southern...
American Jews are to aid their Chinese brethren,* in the Jewish colony of Kvaifeng Fu, to preserve Judaism, said a despatch from Shanghai...
...Jews found their way to China in 1163 and were allowed to open a synagogue at K'ai-feng Fu in 1164, since when they have enjoyed the protection of the authorities. Persecution of the Jew is relatively unknown in China; but they nevertheless keep very much to themselves, most probably because they abhor the Chinamen's pet food, the pig. They are known to the Chinese as "the sect of those who take out the sinew," which refers to their peculiar method of preparing meat in order to make it kosher...
...then added: "I declare that as long as the Powers, including the American Government, persist in recognition of the Wu Pei Fu clique as the Chinese Government, there will and must be disorder and strife in China...
...called Chanto, or turban-people, by the Chinese. Any one of these would stick you in the back for 20 cents, but they are a rough, genial sort, and are a problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules with an iron hand, yet he asked me to wait three days before continuing my journey, so that he could warn the bandits to let me alone.PRIZE OF WARNER EXPEDITION BROUGHT FROM WESTERN CHINA Statue, Dating From Ninth Century, of One of Buddha's Attendant Gods...