Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union. In Houston, Texas, the Women's Christian Temperance Union closed its convention with resolutions against all critics of President Hoover, scofflaw cinemas, hip flasks. It warned both parties to choose Bone-Dry Candidates in future...
...charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping...
...United States' imperialistic policy registers a new success," gloomed Il Lavoro Fascisti, organ of potent labor syndicates. "It was necessary for the United States to remove the only man [ex-Presi- dent Hipólito Irigoyen of Argentina] in the South American republics who was unwilling to submit to a policy of dominion by the great stellar republic...
Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities...
...recent killings seem to have involved, besides the Hip Sings and On Leongs, traditional enemies, the four other principal Tongs, neutrals in past "wars." Federal deportation-threats and New York City police made the Tongs accept two ineffective peace treaties. Killings continued, baffling police. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle decided to set up his own "Benevolent Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed...