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Word: yellowmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure enough, the Japanese found only coal, but they found also the locked in Chinese crew. Shrilling and chattering, the yellowmen rushed ashore with their tale of ten cold-blooded murders by white pirates on the Yellow Sea. Ever since this revelation the four Germans and the Swiss have denied their guilt, trying to get their case appealed to a higher Japanese court. Last week their defense counsel, the Mayor of Port Arthur, argued crushingly in the Superior Court at Dairen, "There is no Japanese law covering piracy. The defendants can only be punished for having entered Dairen illegally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Atrocities | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...something of a joke until a few months ago. Production then was less than 125 per month. Today Mitsubishi have invested $1,000,000 in brand new U. S. machinery, stepped production up to 500 cars per month. In Australia white salesmen moan as white prospects now buy from yellowmen 50 Datsuns per month, despite years of intensive Australian propaganda against the "Yellow Peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Awful | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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