Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign countries and United States possessions on the list, eleven are newcomers, not on the list last year, and seven of last years' list have disappeared. Canada is as usual first, China second, Hawaii third, England and France are tied for fourth...
What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
Albania, four; Africa, one; Australia, two; Austria, two; Belgium, six; Brazil, four; Canada, 41; China, 56; Costa-Rica, two; Columbia, two; British Columbia, one; Cuba, five; Czecho-Slovakia, one; England, 25; Finland, one; France, ten; Germany, ten; Greece, five; Guatemala, City, one; Hawaii, ten; Ireland, two; Italy, four; Japan, ten; Korea, two; Latvia, one; Lithuania, one; Norway, one; Nova Scotia, six; Palestine, four; Panama, one; Peru, one; Phillippine Islands, one; Poland, four; Porto Rico, five; Roumania, two; Russia, six; South Africa, four; Spain, four; Sweden, three; Switzerland, six; Syria, one; British West Indies, one; Turkey, five; Venezuela, three; Yugoslavia...
...Pacific (Idaho, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Philippine Islands dioceses and missionary districts): Bishop Louis Childs Sanford (San Joaquin...
...after election. Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was in San Francisco about to embark with two friends on the S. S. Maui for a fortnight's business-&-pleasure trip to Hawaii. Three hours before sailing time a messenger handed Mr. Woodcock a government telegram from Washington. His face puckered as he read it. Cancelling his bookings, letting his friends sail without him, he explained to newsmen: "President Hoover has called me East for a conference...