Word: tongman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle," he had a warm letter of introduction to a tongsman...
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