Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago John Dominis, a shipmaster who made a fortune in the Pacific trade, built himself a fine white colonial mansion in what is now the centre of Honolulu. His half-white son married Liliuokalani, last Hawaiian monarch. John Dominis' house became Iolani Palace and his daughter-in-law lived in it long after she was deposed. When she died, a great fat wahine, in 1917, the territorial Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks...
...receive the first U. S. President in its territorial history the "Paradise of the Pacific" was prepared to give Franklin Roosevelt a royal welcome. Its citizens were planning to put him up at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, in the suite occupied three years ago by Siam's good King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni. There from his lanai (veranda) he could look out at the surfboarders and swimmers of Waikiki Beach. A hundred volunteer guides were eager to show him the huge fortifications on Diamond Head, the great naval base in land-locked Pearl Harbor (which he as Assistant Secretary...
...ones that did not get away from him. Yet he made no elaborate expedition for it. After he retired from the bench in 1924, he practiced law in Honolulu, became president of the Hawaii Bar Association, something of an island civitarian. Neither the powerful Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association nor the local Democratic machine sponsored him for Governor. Coolidge-like in disposition, and having little in common with Franklin Roosevelt save religion (Episcopalian) and one personal habit (incessant cigaret smoking), "Judge" Poindexter won the President's approval because all groups admitted he was a good man, although not their...
Last week the Senate put its approval (49-to-18) on the House bill practically without change. Amendments to fix the Hawaiian quota at 975,000 tons and the Puerto Rican quota at 875,000 were defeated. Only the beet sugar industry was favored over the President's proposal...
...history will tell any loyal American, Bostonian, Middle-Westerner, or Hawaiian, that the people of Hawaii are being imposed upon when their homeland is called a "possession." It is legally and historically "an integral part of the United States." As a sovereign and independent nation, the Republic of Hawaii joined itself to the United States in 1898. As a Honolulu columnist once said, Hawaii owns the United States just as much as the United States owns Hawaii. Even the island school children feel disgusted when some American minor statesman starts showing himself sufficiently uninformed to consider Hawaii a "possession...