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Perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of I Am was the recent Hawaiian incident. Two summers ago members of the sect on the islands became convinced that Hawaii was soon to sink into the sea. But I Am, by a magnificent exertion of will, resolved that Hawaii should not disappear under the waves. And today Hawaii stands strong and unsubmerged, a bulwark of national defense and a heroic monument to the Great...
...getting on with oilmen; Eugene Meyer, millionaire publisher (Washington Post), ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernard Baruch's financial right hand on the War Industries Board, ex-chairman of RFC, "Butch" to his irreverent workers; and Roger Dearborn Lapharn, chairman of the board of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, organizer and vice president of the San Francisco Employers Council. From Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's leader, Mr. Lapham won high praise during the 1936 maritime strike. Said Bridges: "If the employers as a group will exhibit the same...
...Hawaiian Islands, "sampan" does not mean what Noah Webster says it does. In Hawaii, it means a boat owned by an Oriental. Residents of Honolulu, now queasy over the Japanese crisis in the far Pacific, regard the islands' chief sampan nest at the fisherman's wharf, a few miles from the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, as nothing more than a nest of Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies...
...country's 8,500,000 stockholders, extra and special dividends came almost too fast to count. Items: Allied Chemical, $2; American-Hawaiian Steamship, $1.75; Loew's Inc., $1; J. C. Penney, $2; U. S. Gypsum, $1. The New York Journal of Commerce estimated that they would bring the year's total to $3,565,000,000, up 13% from 1939, 27% from...
Announced by the Navy Department was the retirement "for physical disability" of Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, 34, who in 1932 was convicted of manslaughter (and sentenced to an hour's imprisonment) for killing a Hawaiian allegedly guilty of raping his wife, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie. Lieut. Massie was later divorced, remarried...