Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Travels & Talks. The Man of the Year went yachting off Florida; attended the Harvard-Yale crew races at New London; cruised for a month aboard the U. S. S. Houston from Annapolis to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, through the Panama Canal to Hawaii and back to Portland, Ore.; traveled across the continent with the cheers of multitudes in his ears and the news of drought-slaking rains in his wake; relaxed as the country squire at Hyde Park; toured the Tennessee Valley; sunned himself in the pool at Warm Springs. And during 1934, he spoke 23 times over...
...impatient meal. Ahead lay a full winter's work and new quarters in which that work was to be done. Bodyguard Gus Gennerich helped the President into his wheel chair, rolled him the length of the West colonnade to the new White House offices. Before the President departed for Hawaii last July he turned over to the wreckers the small white, structure which Roosevelt I had erected in 1903 on what was the site of th : Presidential greenhouses. Said Roosevelt II: "While I am away from Washington this summer a long-needed renovation of and addition to our White House...
...Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private who, assigned to act as chauffeur...
...general's daughter when she visits Hawaii, gets into trouble when he takes her for a moonlight joyride. Ruby Keeler is the general's daughter who, when her father has been assigned to the Point as Superintendent, watches Powell, wearing a shako and a beatific grin, graduate four years later. Between times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister...
...votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over the Territory's sugar quota under the Jones-Costigan bill (TIME, June 25), Hawaii voted into office but few other Democrats...