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...also makes some long-tongers angry. Though the divers usually work deeper than the tongmen and thus are not vying for the same oysters, the oldtimers feel threatened by the more efficient newcomers. "They're gonna clean the bay out," claims one long-tonger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Going Deep for Oysters | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Amid the inscrutable intrigue of old-fashioned tongmen and newfangled business operators in San Francisco's Chinatown, tiny Dolly Gee, 64, was empress of finance. For more than 30 years, she was manager of the Bank of America's pagodalike Chinatown branch. Inheriting the shrewdness of her late father, Chinatown's first banker, Charlie Gee, Dolly built the branch deposits from $2,000,000 to $20 million, dished out hundreds of loans that put a financial base under half of Chinatown's enterprises during years when Chinese could not even get life insurance. A high point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: From a Family of Bound Feet | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...until the agents had spent $10,000 and almost two years laying their 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Trapped Tong | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Newark a Hip Sing yellow-man made the error of invading a Chinese quarter settled almost entirely by On Leong Tongmen. There were 26 bullets in his body when the police found it, like a blood-stained yellow tabloid, in the gutter...

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

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