Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roman Catholics in the U. S., Alaska and Hawaii now total 20,322,594 souls, reported a new Official Catholic Directory published last week. During the year past the Church gained 54,191 communicants, of whom 49,181 were converts. The active hierarchy: 29,619 priests, 107 bishops, 18 archbishops of whom four are Cardinals. Schools: 185 seminaries, 1,028 high schools with 24,356 students, 7,429 parochial schools with 2,224,553 pupils...
...industry. It left Cuba with a huge sugar surplus, brought her producers such hardships that they sold their product as low as ⅝? a Ib. (in 1932). But even with a 2? a lb. duty the costly beet sugar industry could not make a profit out of 3? sugar. Hawaii. Puerto Rico and the Philippines, well inside the tariff, could. They expanded their output immensely, until beet sugar producers realized that sooner or later the islands would take the U. S. market away from them. Thus while U. S. consumers were paying some $250,000,000 a year extra...
...Hawaii Quota (tons) 935,000 1932-33 (tons...
...content with what was given her. The Philippines, about to be given their freedom, were in more or less the same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill was passed by the House three weeks ago, its quota had been raised from...
Indignantly the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association exclaimed: "Except when it comes to assessing the territory with all Federal taxes and compelling us to bear our proportion of the burdens borne by the mainland, we are apparently not to be considered as an integral part of the United States...