Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours later, President Roosevelt was relaxing as the grey warship sped him on toward Hawaii...
...Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary of the Navy helped develop), a review of troops at the largest U. S. Army post (Schofield Barracks: 30,000 men). For the asking they would gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...
...Poindexter is the son of a California pioneer who became a rancher in Montana during the '80s. Son Joseph grew up, took to the law, went into politics, became a State judge. He was Montana's Attorney General in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson made him a Federal judge in Hawaii. He was a quiet man, some said stubborn, firm and courteous on the bench, not given to expansive talk or large social entertainments. Hunting, fishing and contract bridge were his only sports and his only boast concerned fishing: "The big ones never get away from...
...Governor of Hawaii was one of the big ones that did not get away from him. Yet he made no elaborate expedition for it. After he retired from the bench in 1924, he practiced law in Honolulu, became president of the Hawaii Bar Association, something of an island civitarian. Neither the powerful Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association nor the local Democratic machine sponsored him for Governor. Coolidge-like in disposition, and having little in common with Franklin Roosevelt save religion (Episcopalian) and one personal habit (incessant cigaret smoking), "Judge" Poindexter won the President's approval because all groups admitted...
...biggest fish in Hawaii's economic pool are her five big companies of "factors"?American Factors, C. Brewer & Co. ("oldest American corporation west of the Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses...