Word: dillingham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hawaii's political season was in full flower last week. The race that is attracting the most interest: the contest to succeed U.S. Senator Oren E. Long, 73, a Democrat who is retiring. The opponents: Dillingham, 46, the scion of Hawaii's most prominent haole (white) family, and Democratic Representative Daniel Ken Inouye, 38, the first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent...
Like a big (247 Ibs.) bear, Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II sat in a rumpled brown suit, restive under the pink and red leis that draped his neck like a collar, and listened to talks by fellow Republican candidates Peter Chun, Bill Kim, Bob Fukuda and Ted Nobriga. Then came Ben Dillingham's turn. He arose ponderously, lifted his right arm in salute. "Alooooo-ha!" he roared. "Aloooooooo...
Danny Inouye has a reputation as Hawaii's best vote getter, and Big Ben started a long way behind. But Inouye has been kept mostly in Washington by the agonizingly long session of Congress, and Dillingham has been working up to 17 hours a day to catch up. His simple conservative appeal: "I am dedicated to the proposition of limited constitutional government, states' rights, the free enterprise system, individual responsibility...
...Family Tradition." Republican Dillingham comes by his conservatism naturally. His family amassed a huge fortune in everything from construction to railroads and docks to shopping centers. Ben Dillingham himself got into politics after World War II service in the Army (he won a Bronze Star in the Saipan invasion) as a member of the Honolulu board of supervisors, has put in eight years (1949-57) as a member of the territorial senate, recently served as Republican county chairman on Oahu...
Trouble in Paradise. But not all has been smooth in paradise. Besides taking on the Dillingham family in what Hawaiians call "the Battle of the Millionaires," Kaiser has had a go at almost everyone. His pressure (usually successful) in pushing through zoning laws to suit his projects has angered many residents. He has tangled publicly with the doctors in his hospital (over their salaries), the Coast Guard (his $225,000 catamaran, since turned in for a smaller one, could not pass inspection for commercial use), the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (Hawaii Kai will replace large crop areas), the Hawaii Yacht...