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...after the New York State law, this decision will undoubtedly serve as a model and precedent for the rest of the States." The nudist decision had immediate effect in Manhattan where seven chorus girls and two managers of a burlesque show were on trial charged with lewdly producing a Hawaiian dance number. As he freed the group, the magistrate declared: "By common acceptance a Hawaiian dance is not an indecent performance. The arresting officer testified that the dance did not arouse lecherous desires. Nudity, partial or complete, is not in itself lewd...
Philippine sugar producers filled their 1934 quota early last summer. The Puerto Rican and Hawaiian quotas were completed in November. But Cuba, noted in the trade as a patient holder, still had several hundred thousand tons of its quota left as late as September. The Cubans had begun to foresee that as soon as the quotas of other producers were exhausted, they would be in control of the U. S. raw sugar market until the 1935 quotas came into effect Jan. 1. Accordingly, in early October, they signed a three-month agreement with U. S. refiners. The agreement: 1) Cuban...
Engaged. Elizabeth Dole, 23, daughter of James Drummond Dole, founder chairman of Hawaiian Pineapple Co. and aviation patron (Dole Flight, 1927); and David H. Porteus, Harvard Law student...
Some of his aquatints of Hawaiian girls last week immediately reminded critics of Gauguin's sultry Tahiti wood carvings and oils. Unforced and simple, John Kelly's etchings proved him an able draughtsman. Hawaii visitors saw in his pictures a pleasing, accurate record of the island's scenery, water, natives and customs...
...high-handedness of the Administration in certain instances. The matter of the air-mail contracts was one instance of this. A case of the same thing, with a far more sinister aspect because it involved a good deal of falsehood in it, was the threat to the Hawaiian Islands delivered by Mr. Wesley Sturges, a Yale professor of law and erstwhile brain-truster with the A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations in the islands. At the same time the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was preparing...