Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago by writing and telephoning some 3,000 stockholders, joining a hastily formed committee of Racine citizens in buying up its own shares in the market. Sharon Steel Corp. boosted its annual dividend from 60? to 80? a share to help fend off a tender offer by Honolulu Industrialist George W. Murphy. Julius Garfinckel & Co., the Washington-based retail chain that controls Manhattan's Brooks Bros., last year rebuffed a tender takeover attempt by Genesco, Maxey Jarman's shoe-and-clothing combine, after two court fights and a bitter exchange of public recriminations. Most often, the best...
Father Joseph Damien de Veuster has been a storm center of controversy in Hawaii for the better part of a century. A Belgian-born Roman Catholic priest seeking converts, he was greeted with hostility by Hawaii's ruling Protestant-missionary families from the moment he arrived in Honolulu in 1864. He eventually volunteered to serve the leper colony on Molokai, became a beloved, if eccentric figure there; he wore a flowered native dress under his cape, tied up the brim of his battered clerical hat with string. At the age of 49, he died of leprosy, or Hansen...
Snorted the Honolulu Advertiser...
...longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...
Died. William M. Kincaid, 71, flutist, hailed as one of the world's top performers during his 39 years with the Philadelphia Orchestra and renowned as a teacher of virtually every first-rank U.S. flutist active today, who learned breath control as a child diving for pennies in Honolulu harbor, played in various mainland orchestras until 1921, when Leopold Stokowski lured him to Philadelphia, where he pleased audiences with his lyrical solos on the "metal nightingale"; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...