Word: laundryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chin Hong, a 40-year-old New York laundryman, had already mailed his $700 life savings to China, to buy his relatives out of a Communist jail. When a letter arrived last week demanding $1,000 more, Chin, depressed and penniless, tried to commit suicide. In a frenzy, he attacked three policemen who tried to stop him. They shot him in self-defense...
George Marshall, laundryman-owner of the Washington Redskins, got in on the play. Said Marshall: "It's hard to understand why Blaik would make such comments when he coaches one of the few thoroughly professional teams in existence. Mr. Blaik's references about football would carry greater weight if Army hadn't run out on its traditional rival, Notre Dame...