Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found in Hawaii no organized crime, no important criminal class and no criminal rackets. . . . We found a condition of inefficiency in the administration of justice which, in effect, constituted an invitation to the commission of crime. . . . The unusual conditions of race, society and industry in the Territory make a continuance of such laxity fraught with much social and political danger. . . . We found no present serious race prejudice. The races seemed to be carrying on together with exceedingly little friction. . . . We found the police administration in Honolulu impotent, undisciplined, neglectful and unintelligent, with its chief concern political activity. ... In Honolulu...
...tactics, dismissed ten whites from service. The final mottled jury, composed of three Chinese, a Hawaiian, a Portuguese, a German, a Dane and five Anglo-Saxons, was viewed as a triumph for Lawyer Darrow and the defense because its white element was preponderantly higher than the average population of Hawaii...
Last week in Washington Assistant Attorney General Seth Richardson's report on Hawaii was published. Early this year the Senate, stirred by the Massie rape, the Kahahawai killing (see above) and the Navy's charge that its women were not safe in Hawaii, caused Attorney General Mitchell to send Mr. Richardson for a personal investigation. His report flayed Honolulu's law enforcement, blamed politics for the current mess and deflated much of the race sensationalism attaching to the Massie and Fortescue cases. Excerpts...
...best equipped ships, the U. S. S. Colorado, Captain Watson received orders from the Navy department to come to Harvard. Because of new orders from the Department Office in Washington, to the effect that he was to remain in charge of the Pacific fleet in the vicinity of Hawaii until the Admiral had ordered the manoeuvers to stop, his period of instruction at Harvard had to be delayed...
Married. Dorothy Bob, 22, daughter of Arch-Promoter Charles Victor Bob; and Andrew Cook McGill, 27, son of President James C. McGill of Territorial Hotels Corp. of Hawaii; in Manhattan. Court recess during his trial for alleged use of the mails to defraud in connection with Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) enabled Promoter Bob to attend...