Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since early this winter, when preparations for the Hawaiian maneuvers began to get in the news, many a citizen has suspected that the concentration of U. S. sea power in the Pacific was in some way related to rumblings of war in the Far East. The impression that the exercises were at least being ominously protracted was fertilized two months ago when the Special Service Squadron pulled out of the Caribbean under orders to proceed to the Philippines. Fact is. the Navy's training schedule was made public last autumn, has not deviated from schedule...
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Died. Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole of Hawaii, 53, wealthy, cultured relict of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, longtime Hawaiian delegate to Congress (1903-1922); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Honolulu. Though retired as titular head of her people, she sought their welfare as a member of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, preserved their traditions at great luau feasts, where she served old-fashioned poi, had old-fashioned hula dances...
...oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together in a guarded block. Theoretically 25 troop transports accompanied the armada, carrying a command of 40.000 men under Major General Malin Craig. Actual personnel of this Blue fleet, about to engage with the Black defenders of the Hawaiian Islands in Grand Joint Exercise No. 4, was 27.250 officers...
...sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris Wells, commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department...