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Without Conditions. In Waukesha, Wis., a Hawaiian student's eager plea for admission was taken under consideration by the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys-a reform school...
Fourteen Points. The week's testimony also shed light on the warning that came too late-the message Walter Short received on Dec. 7 at 2:58 p.m. Hawaiian time, informing him that the Japs were...
...card on the table. He needed the fleet in Hawaii as a "restraining influence on Japan." "But," protested "Joe" Richardson, "Japan has a military government which knows our fleet is undermanned . . . unprepared. . . ." "Despite what you believe," the President said, "I know that the presence of the fleet in the Hawaiian Islands has had-and is now having-a restraining in fluence...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz got a special Navy Day bow from the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...
Portuguese growers in the Azores knew a century ago that burning wood in their hothouses made the pineapples ripen quicker. (It was the ethylene gas in the wood smoke.) Following the principle, Hawaiian pineapple-growers have long been dropping pellets of calcium carbide into the hearts of their yucca-like pineapple plants. Moistened by dew, the pellets give off acetylene (similar to ethylene) which makes the plants bear earlier...