Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of years back while holding down my first job as a ship's officer, on a voyage from Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...
...Association of Junior Leagues of America, whose 20,000 members in 114 cities of the U.S., Canada and Hawaii do charitable work socially, last week swung open its exclusive gate on the southern border of the U.S. to admit the Junior League of Mexico City. It was the first league branch in any foreign country other than Canada. But with Mexico admitted, the A.J.L.A. found itself without a definite "foreign policy...
...command of the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Col. Bishop is a West Pointer (1897). During the World War he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade, the Third Field Artillery Brigade. He has lived with guns and caissons and horses and the smell of black powder during his whole military career...
...pioneer missionary in the Gilbert Islands. While Bingham Sr. pushed deep into the tropic wilderness to translate the Bible into heathen dialects, his son remained in Hawaiian schools. He was sent to the U. S. at 18, was graduated from Yale in 1898, returned to Hawaii to serve briefly as superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission, as chemist at Molokai for American Sugar Co. A year later he returned to the U. S., studied at the University of California, at Harvard. Equipped with a Harvard Ph. D. he taught history and politics for a year at Princeton...
...Washington, last week, the House Committee on Agriculture, headed by Gilbert N. Haugen, considered the Norbeck-Andresen Bill making it "unlawful for any person to kill or capture any Bald Eagle within the continental United States, Alaska, Porto Rico or Hawaii," or to meddle with such an eagle's nest. If the bill is passed it will be legal to kill an eagle only when he is caught in the act of killing lambs, fawns or foxes on fox farms. Eagles killing chickens or making off with children will be immune...