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...Hawaii which most mainlanders (including Senators) carry around in their minds. According to the cliché, Hawaii is the home of hula dancers, ukulele players and dark-skinned surf riders, the stage for potential treason from the inscrutable Oriental-American, the impregnable bastion of Pearl Harbor, and the domain of those ancient monopolists, the Big Five...
...next 13 years, Harold L. Ickes of Chicago ran the vast domain of the Department of the Interior, and anything else he could get his hands on. He was "Honest Harold," bristling with incorruptibility, and so suspicious of everybody that he organized a private detective force to keep his department straitlaced. He was the "Old Curmudgeon," with a belligerent aggressiveness, a flair for day-to-day administration, a childish temper and a tongue like a branding iron...
Upon the whole surface of the globe, there is no more spacious and splendid domain than Canada open to the activity and genius of free men. -Winston Churchill, Ottawa...
...domain where Huey Long founded a dynasty on demagoguery, his successors have been challenged at the polls three times by an upcountry judge called "the poor man's candidate...
...Majesty. For its pains, Aramco (owned by California Standard, Texaco, New Jersey Standard, Socony-Vacuum) got 440,000 square miles of Ibn Saud's domain, the world's largest oil concession, the most productive (866,000 barrels daily) and one of the most profitable...