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...President Hoover appointed Lawrence M. Judd, rancher and county supervisor of Honolulu, to be Governor of Hawaii, succeeding Wallace Rider Farrington. eight-year incumbent. Another appointment: William D. L. Starbuck, New York mechanical engineer, patent attorney, Democrat, to the Federal Radio Commission. As President Coolidge had unsuccessfully done before him, President Hoover sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Senator from Wisconsin, to be Judge on the U. S. Court of Customs & Patents Appeals...
Governor Wallace Rider Farrington welcomed many a bigwig from Great Britain and the U.S. to his now contented islands, where the natives ride the waves with surf boards and where the weather is so good that nobody needs to write about it. Japanese make up the largest population group, but business is chiefly in the hands of people from...
...first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews It," got third prize...
...attention has been called to the fact that you were so kind as to give considerable space to a story which came from a Honolulu newspaper regarding some remarks I made at a dinner given me by Governor Farrington of Hawaii [TIME...
There were no reporters present at the dinner and no report was authorized by Governor Farrington or by me. The story which finally appeared some two weeks after the event, purports to quote me as saying a number of things which I did not say. It is not my practice to attempt to correct newspaper stories, but so much attention has been given to this sensational yarn and so much emphasis has been placed upon statements I did not make and stories I did not tell and I have received so much praise for something I did not do, that...