Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luncheon table sat four potent political bigwigs: 1) Postmaster General Farley bringing tidings of the state of Democracy as far west as Hawaii; 2) Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago; 3) Democratic National Chairman Charles E. Broughton of Wisconsin; 4) Robert H. Jackson, Counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, power in upper New York State politics...
Back in Los Angeles after a fortnight of fun in Hawaii was Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley. While bathing and basking in the sun there, he ran afoul Naval regulations by taking a cinema of the arrival of the Pan-American Clipper. Loyal Democrats paid $3 apiece for a raw fish and octopus banquet at which Boss Farley told them: "The United States is making reasonably steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere. You can take any index you please...
...spent three days examining the new "village," with its radio station, weather bureau, power plant, refrigeration plant, electric stills for drinking water, airport office, service shops, kitchen, dining hall, four buildings for living quarters. Then last week they flew back across the International Date line to Midway, on to Hawaii, finally to San Francisco, having traveled 10,064 miles in three weeks in the third exploratory testing of the new airline...
...usual in defeat, the Democrats thought one thing and said another. Speaker Byrns shrugged it off with: "The Rhode Island election had no national significance." Tennessee's Senator McKellar bravely belittled: "Their gloating . . . is like the Democrats rejoicing over a victory in Mississippi." Postmaster General Farley, in Hawaii, was sure "Roosevelt could carry Rhode Island today...
...have labored in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1919 President Heber Jedediah Grant went there to dedicate a temple at the village of Laie. Hawaiian Mormons now number 14,000 saints. Last week stubble-bearded, 78-year-old President Grant returned to Salt Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)- the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark, onetime Ambassador to Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given a rousing...