Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indicted with Bridges were two of his . International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's lieutenants. They are Texas-born Vice President J. R. ("Bob") Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt, who is currently running Bridges' four-week-old tie-up of Hawaiian shipping...
Ralston Crawford wrote that his abstraction of a Hawaiian fishing port, Kewalo, showing two or three slices of plane geometry and a porthole, simply reflected his "interest in finding and expressing ... a bit of order." He seemed to be on safe enough ground there...
Zanier hats were also ready for market last week. Brooklyn's American Merrilei Corp. (which also makes Hawaiian leis and paper party hats) brought out a pith helmet containing a tiny, concealed radio set with a single earphone. But the Buck Rogers buffs might prefer a football type helmet, which the American Junior Aircraft Co. of Portland, Ore. displayed at the 46th annual American Toy Fair. It carried a tone transmitter (see cut) which controls the steering of a glider airplane by sonic vibrations. A steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left...
...deceptive. Like every Bavarian city and village, Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
Governor Stainback had a point. Actually, leprosy is considered less infectious than tuberculosis. But Hawaiians preferred to go slow. Said Harry A. Kleugel, head of the Hawaiian Board of Hospitals: "We should be wary of jumping into something new when the present operation is showing results." Five bills were introduced after the Governor's message, but none was for immediate action. One asked for a survey of leprosy in Hawaii and a report to the next session; another asked for more research. The others would make life easier at Kalaupapa by such details as allowing photographs to be sent...