Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawaiian manager of a chain store...
From another sector of the courtroom the jury was scrutinized by a swart, heavy Hawaiian who wore spectacles and chewed gum. A trolley motorman. he was Joseph Kahahawai. It was his son and namesake whom Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two sailors were accused of kidnapping last January from the steps of the same courthouse, shooting to death in the Fortescue cottage and then carrying out toward Koko Head, where they were arrested. Father Kahahawai was there to watch U. S. justice done. Near the defendants sat the other figure most involved in the Territory's most sensational...
...four tedious days spent in selecting a jury resolved themselves into a tussle of West against East, of Lawyer Darrow against Prosecutor John Kelley. Mr. Darrow, whose 75 years and frail health cut the daily court sessions short, weeded Hawaiians, Japanese and Chinese out of the jury as often as he could with peremptory challenges. Other Orientals disqualified themselves when they exclaimed that the four defendants "ought to be shot." Broad, Irish-looking Prosecutor Kelley, though essentially fair in his tactics, dismissed ten whites from service. The final mottled jury, composed of three Chinese, a Hawaiian, a Portuguese, a German...
...think the public reports with respect to alleged proclivity of members of the Hawaiian race in sexual crime is substantiated by the facts. The Hawaiians have a different sexual standard than we have but I found no reason for believing that the result of such a different standard predisposes the Hawaiian to violent sex crime. . . . The amount of sex-crime seemed less than reported from many localities on the mainland...
Purpose of Fleet Problem No. 13, which followed the Grand Joint Exercise in Hawaiian waters, was to assay the vulnerability of the Pacific Coast to a mighty naval armament convoying troops, and the possibility of warding off such an attack by a lighter, more mobile defending force. The Blue attackers, under the command of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, commander of the Battle Forces, consisted of nine battleships, four light cruisers, 23 destroyers, one mine layer, four light mine layers, aircraft carrier Saratoga ("Sister Sara"), 104 planes, 18 auxiliary craft representing 30 troopships. The Black defenders, commanded by Vice Admiral Arthur...