Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weary closing days of the last session, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley was filling the calendar for the session to follow when his distracted lieutenant, Utah's William H. King, hesitated too long getting to his feet with a District of Columbia airport bill. Up jumped New York's Robert Wagner with his Federal Anti-Lynching Bill which had already passed the House. So fearful of a last-minute filibuster by Southern Senators was Leader Barkley that he promised to make anti-lynching the first order of business after the Farm Bill in the next session, if Senator...
...President wants the Congress to address itself first to farm legislation," drawled Senator Connally, who likes to talk even more than most. "The Senator from New York wants to go off on a vote-catching expedition in Harlem. The Senator from New York has his mind and eye on the future." New York's lumbering senior Senator Royal Copeland then rose to explain unnecessarily, as he was to do many times as the day progressed, that Tom Connally's scorn was directed not at him but at his colleague in name only, junior Senator Wagner...
...plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last winter, were still sharply divided. The President's popularity, despite his triumphal tour of the West this fall, seemed subject to recheck. Most important of all, what had looked six weeks ago like a minor reaction on the New York Stock Exchange had developed into a major business recession which was not only the longest since 1933 but one of the sharpest in U. S. economic history...
...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 of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business a year...
...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...