Word: kees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention has been called to an article contributed by Bishop Titus Lowe and published in your weekly dated March 12, 1928, in which we find certain remarks made by him became distorted through purely innocent enthusiastic eulogy of Mr. Tan Kah Kee...
Concluded the good Bishop with ardor: "The greatest single rubber operator in the world is a Chinese named Tan Kah-kee with headquarters in Singapore...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...
...Hungarian for "Hungarian King" (pronounced Mod'djor Kee...
First a fine assemblage of Chinese notables, all urging peace, met in the District Attorney's office. There was Ziang Ling Chang, the Chinese Consul, Lee Kee, President of the Chinese Benevolent Association, Leong du Ching, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Chu Man Sing, Secretary of the Four Brothers' Association, Professor Guy Main of Columbia, Ong Gong Yee, potentate of Chinese Freemasons, Lou You, head of the Chinese Citizens' Alliance. A most august assemblage-all urging peace in the good name of their country and their race...