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...larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over the Territory's sugar quota under the Jones-Costigan bill (TIME, June 25), Hawaii voted into office but few other Democrats...
...A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations in the islands. At the same time the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was preparing to file a suit in Washington to restrain Secretary Wallace from enforcing the Costigan-Jones sugar-quota law in Hawaii. The planters' contention was--and it appears quite justifiable--that the Hawaiian Islands had received an unfairly low quota. But the merits of the suit do not matter. What does matter is that Mr. Sturges gave a speech over the radio in which he told...
...government battled fiercely tonight to keep secret records pertaining to Cuban relations leading up to the Costigan-Jones Sugar Law, challenged by Hawalian planters...
...Carl Johnson, country politician and son of a Swedish immigrant, was the Adams family organization. An Adams has held elective office in Colorado ever since Statehood (1876). Present political chief of the clan is Junior Senator Alva Blanchard Adams. A conservative small town banker, Senator Adams split with Senator Costigan over the New Deal, would like to oust onetime Republican Costigan from the Democratic Party...
...primary day approached, Governor Johnson's adherents cried that Senator Costigan was having people dropped from relief rolls for failing to solicit votes for Candidate Roche. Senator Costigan denounced the Johnsonite Denver Post for its "nauseating campaign of unwarranted invective and deception." But Colorado Democrats gave Governor Johnson a 7-to-6 majority over the first female aspirant for his office. Nate C. Warren of Fort Collins was the Republican chosen to oppose...