Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 20, freshman at Williams College, adopted son of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Charles Gates Dawes; and Eleanor Frances Dillingham, 20, sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, daughter of Professor Frank T. Dillingham of the University of Hawaii; secretly, last month; in Belchertown, Mass...
...Bill" Castle was born in Hawaii in 1878 as a loyal subject of King Kalakaua. His grandfather had come to the Islands from New England with the first mission aries. His father had served the King as Attorney General, later as Hawaiian Minister to the U. S. Young Castle went to Harvard, was graduated in 1900, lingered on at college as an English instructor, as assistant dean in charge of freshmen, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine. When the War came, he went to Washington, opened a Red Cross bureau to relieve prisoners, to find missing men overseas...
...Army's General Staff, the Navy's General Board have from time to time intimated that in the event of a war with Japan the U. S. would not attempt to defend the Philippines or the long line of communications thereto, but would withdraw to Hawaii as a defensive outpost in the Pacific...
...would increase the island's industrialization with the aid of ample waterpower. Porto Rico, for instance, produces 600,000 tons of raw sugar per year but lacks a big refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged when the U. S. Congress at the last session classified it as a colony by appropriating $5,000 for it to exhibit at the International Colonial Exposition in France...
Home last week from a trip to Hawaii, Publisher Adolph Ochs, 73, of the New York Times, called the end of the New York World "an unfortunate and calamitous chapter in the history of American journalism. . . . Had I been in New York ... I should have saved it for the employes...