Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing Tong is a business, social and fraternal secret organization of American-Chinese whose several thousand members usually get themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework...
Jimmy Wong introduced the agent to his friend Ko Wing Chuck, treasurer of the Hip Sing Tong. The agent bought a generous supply of opium and went to Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing...
...plans did Government officials give the signal to draw in the net last week. New York and Brooklyn provided the biggest haul-five Tong members, ten of their white friends, and one extraneous Chinese. Two Tongmen were arrested in Chicago, one Yee Haim, ex-national president of the Hip Sings in Pittsburgh, two in San Francisco, and two-Chin Joo Hip and Chin Joo Hip Jr.-in Butte. Perimeter of the wide circle of underworld associations of which Chin Joo Hip was the hub appeared to be tangent to an even more notorious crime ring. One of the four women...
...back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have...
...Deanna Durbin should turn up at a Leverett House cocktail party about six years from now, she will probably get credit for cheering herself hoarse at Soldier's Field, but the real culprits will be the people who made her sing La Traviata way back in 1937 when she was only fourteen. In "100 Men and a Girl," now playing at the University, Deanna turns in a perfectly splendid performance in spite of the supporting cast of Adolphe Menjou, Eugene Pallette and Mischa Auer...