Word: jap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James O'Brien, 90, lawyer, diplomat, onetime (1907-11) Ambassador to Japan, onetime (1911-13) Ambassador to Italy; after long illness; in Grand Rapids, Mich. He it was who shaped the gentlemen's agreement between the U. S. and Japan preventing the influx of Oriental labor into Jap-fearing California...
Samples of S. O. E. D. definition: "Tycoon. 1863. (ad. Jap. taikun great lord or prince, f. Chinse ta great & kiun prince.) The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners...
...acquired (for a rumored eight or ten million dollars) James S. Kirk & Co., manufacturers of Jap Rose soap, oldtime Procter & Gamble rival in the Chicago area, an ancient & honored Chicago industry which (until last week) was still controlled by the descendants of the original James S. Kirk who founded it in Utica, N. Y., in 1839, took it to Chicago two decades later...