Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Williamstown vigilantes talked and pondered, other conferences planned after the Williamstown model concluded or prepared to begin talking, pondering. The Institute of Pacific Relations closed in Honolulu. A two-day conference of Latin-America was completed at the University of New Hampshire. And at the University of Virginia, halls were swept for an Institute of Public Affairs, designed to air chiefly domestic problems of the U. S. Among the vigilantes scheduled to appear at Charlottesville, Va., were Governors Alfred E. Smith of New York, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, Director of the Budget...
...land airplane over an ocean-close to distraction. So thought radio operators listening last week to the day-and- nightlong flashes of Ernest L. Smith, civilian pilot, and Emory Bronte, navigator, who entered dense fog with their Travelair monoplane, City of Oakland, soon after leaving Oakland, Calif., for Honolulu in mid-Pacific. "Foggy as hell," snapped Flyer Smith's first signals. Then he seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon working great." The strain began to show in a later message...
...even while Aviators Smith and Bronte were skimming the Pacific, westward bound, a less sensational but no less important event was taking place in Honolulu, chief city and capital of Hawaii. Here was meeting the Institute of Pacific Relations, an unofficial but distinguished gathering of representatives from Japan, from China, from Australia, from Great Britain and from the U. S. The purpose of the conference was the interchange of information and ideas concerning Pacific problems, particularly with respect to relations between the Occidental and Oriental populations in U. S. and British insular possessions. Special attention was also to be given...
Governor Farrington was born in Orono, Me., in 1871. After having been a reporter on various Maine newspapers, he became one of the founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater...
Judge Edward McCorrison, "Little King" (U. S. magistrate) of Molokai, had seen the wheezing ship pass over his courthouse and was among the first to welcome the visitors. He guided them to the local radio station. The army planes from Honolulu were sent over (60 miles southeast) to pick up heroes instead of victims. Pilot Smith used Charles Augustus Lindbergh's phrase as he set foot on Wheeler Field. "Well," he said, "here...