Word: hawaiian
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...vote-getting side, Lapham turned out to have virtues: a World War I rec ord; a start in life as clerk of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (he is now board chairman). As an employer member of the National War Labor Board, Lapham won praise from Franklin Roosevelt for his fairmindedness; once he was even praised as a "fair and honest" employer by militant Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
...East Side, he managed to get through grammar school, took a few music lessons and embarked on a childhood career as a café piano pounder and vaudeville actor. At 17 he got a job with Music Publisher Gus Edwards and wrote the first Ruby hit, When Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes...
...Special couriers from the Commander-in-Chief and the Army's Hawaiian Department stood waiting all afternoon for the first copies to come from the presses...
Last week the Army and Navy promptly ordered all servicemen out of the Waikiki district (except those with business there), barred them from the scheduled first Honolulu performance of This Is the Army, closed recreation centers, confined sailors in Waikiki's Royal Hawaiian Hotel (now a Navy rest center) to the hotel grounds. A Negro chemical-warfare company moved into Waikiki with thousands of gallons of insecticide to wipe out mosquito-breeding places. But by week's end the epidemic had spread to seven Honolulu districts. Officers feared they might have to declare the whole city...
...just the buildup but all the rest-the astronomically expanding budget, the ten thousand rumors and denials of political censorship, the interminable and ill-explained delays, like those whirs, buzzes and hangings which take place behind the curtain on the night Hamlet turns up drunk in a Hawaiian skirt. The audience was getting restless. But it was still eager. It knew Paramount had in Ernest Hemingway's novel the possibilities of one of the best pictures, greatest popular entertainments and most colossal money-makers ever produced. It wanted to see the new superproduction, the Gone With the Wind with...