Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That ambition first hit Soichi Sakamoto a decade ago, when he was teaching grade school on the Hawaiian island of Maui. He knew nothing about swimming except what he had learned as a scoutmaster, teaching lifesaving. "I read some books on swimming but it didn't do any good," he says, "so I started just using common sense." Common sense consisted of rounding up the best young prospects on an island where kids are naturally amphibious, then straightening out their faults. His first pupils, who could not afford to use private pools, swam their time trials in irrigation ditches...
...Alabaman of the American Hawaiian Steamship Co., valued at $288,474, earned $1,746,108 in fees...
Proper Name. In Honolulu, John Wahinehookae (Hawaiian for woman-hater) set fire to an apartment house, later explained that his ex-wife lived there...
...strike ended, but not the trouble. One of the issues was malpractices in hiring longshoremen. Bridges' union wanted to run its own hiring halls. One day in 1936 the president of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. accepted a challenge to debate that issue publicly with Bridges. The steamship line president was gregarious, articulate Roger Dearborn Lapham...
...Rise of Roger Lapham. He was born in Manhattan, in 1883. Five of his mother's brothers had gone to sea. One of them, Uncle George Dearborn, had organized American-Hawaiian, and he gave 17-year-old Roger the chance to ride one of the line's new freighters out to Hawaii...