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Daniel K. Inouye (D), the first U.S. Congressman of Oriental descent downed millionaire Ben Dillingham in the Senatorial contest...
Hawaii. With elderly Senator Oren E. Long retiring, slum-born Democratic Congressman Daniel Ken Inouye, a Nisei, is competing for the seat against Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, scion of Hawaii's most prominent family. Starting out way behind, Republican Dillingham narrowed the gap while Inouye was kept glued in Washington. But there still appears to be a bit of gap left...
...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...
Last week at a political rally in Papakolea, a Honolulu subdivision, Dillingham explained his feeling of political mission. "My family," he said, "came to Hawaii and have lived in Hawaii to serve. My grandfather came here as a missionary. He came to serve. My grandmother came as a schoolteacher. She came to serve. My father filled in 5,000 acres of the harbor, 5,000 acres that have given all of you people and your families places to work, things to do. I want to reinvest some of the privileges, some of the advantages that we have had. I want...
Although Inouye is still favored to win, Dillingham scoffs at the possibility. Says he: "Either I'm getting the biggest snow job in the world or I'm going to win this election." In any event, he will stick to his standards. "I'm a liberal in a lot of ways. But where the conservatism comes in, both economically and politically, is in my belief that you have to make damn sure how you're going to come out before you start anything. I object to the promises that are made to people of things that...