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...HELLO! Chief? Don't forget, chief, that the Chinese murder is a tong killing. . . . We understand each other, don't we, chief? ... All right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laundrymen 's War | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Moy Back Hin, 70, millionaire tong ruler of Portland, Ore.; by Leong Ho. Moy claims that Leong Ho is his housekeeper, that Ng Shee is his wife. Pearl, one of the children, claims that she has never known any other mother than Leong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Died. "Little Louis" Fook, 43, merchant, prominent in the Tong councils, beloved "Mayor of Chinatown," friend of Governor Alfred E. Smith (he went to Emily Smith's wedding); in Brooklyn, of tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Cleveland the Hip Sing Tong, at a banquet to visiting delegates, served them slender shoots of bamboo with eggs which had been buried in mud for scores of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Department of Labor began to feel its purse and advise discretion in the choice of Chinamen for deportation as the result of the recent tong war. The cost deporting the 267 Chinese-seize-in-. Manhattan alone will probably come to $56,000, a sum greater greater than the appropriation available to the Immagration service for deportation purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Potpourri | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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