Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Camel (Fox) is an amusing mystery story in which the corpse is that of a cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample...
Leis, Next year the Foreign Trade Council will convene in Hawaii. This year many of the members wore leis and flowers in anticipation. "I got the Hawaiian atmosphere the moment I entered the room," remarked Mayor James John Walker when he arrived 80 minutes late...
Topics. "It's Asia's century," said one-time Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, a bull on Pacific trade...
...National Foreign Trade Council (see p. 53) last week Steelman James Augustine Farrell wired good wishes to 87-year-old Capt. Robert Dollar of San Francisco who was too ill to attend. Despite these felicitations, many a Pacific shipper last week was angry at Steelman Farrell. From Hawaii to the Atlantic, via Panama, ply the steamers of Isthmian Steamship Co., United States Steel unit, pet & pride of Mr. Farrell who has sailed before-the-mast. Last week Isthmian ships, accustomed to return from Hawaii practically empty, contracted to carry James Drummond Dole's Hawaiian pineapples direct to destination...
...years after his graduation from Harvard Dr. Dean took his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Yale. He then joined the Yale faculty and remained there until he was called to Hawaii in 1914. For three years after his retirement Dr. Dean was a director of the experiment station of Hawaii Pineapple Canners, which is affiliated with the university. Since 1930 he has been a member of the executive staff of Alexander and Baldwin, a position which he still holds...