Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wisconsin. When Franklin Roosevelt, homing from Hawaii, paused at Green Bay to pat his Wisconsin friends upon the back, he singled out two: Progressive Senator Bob La Follette, and Democratic Governor Albert G. Schmedeman. No help to the Governor's campaign was the accident which resulted in the amputation of his leg (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he emerged from the hospital, reentered the campaign with hope: "After all a political race isn't one of those collegiate track events." Nor was it, for Franklin Roosevelt, showing little college spirit, cheered on Progressive Bob La Follette who dragged his brother...
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.* In six States pensions are optional with each county, which pays at least part of the cost. In the other 22, pension laws are mandatory and the aged, over 65 or 70. get from a maximum of $390 a year in New Hampshire to a minimum of $150 a year in North Dakota, provided they can prove their need...
...years ago only Montana had an old-age pension law. Only four States had such laws prior to 1929. The New Deal and Depression gave the first real impetus to the movement; ten States and the Territory of Hawaii passed such laws in 1933. This winter President Roosevelt will move in Congress to nationalize the old-age pension idea, spread it over...
...before shown east of California. Californians remember John Kelly as an advertising man who gave up his job eight years ago, went to Honolulu, won honorable mention at last year's International Exhibit in Los Angeles. A shy Irishman, Kelly and his sculptress wife live year round in Hawaii, prefer natives to tourists. He dislikes exhibiting, does so only when his wife argues him into...
Some of his aquatints of Hawaiian girls last week immediately reminded critics of Gauguin's sultry Tahiti wood carvings and oils. Unforced and simple, John Kelly's etchings proved him an able draughtsman. Hawaii visitors saw in his pictures a pleasing, accurate record of the island's scenery, water, natives and customs...