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...nearly 3 p.m. in Washington, nearly 10:30 a.m. in Hawaii 5,000 miles away. In the House chamber of the Capitol, the debate rattled on, while off the floor, two men placed two separate long-distance calls to Honolulu. One was the Territory's twelfth appointed Governor, Republican William F. Quinn, who was calling Acting Governor Edward E. Johnston. The other was Democratic Territorial Delegate John Burns, who got through to Territorial House Speaker Elmer F. Cravalho, who was standing on the dais in the assembly chambers of Hawaii's lolani Palace...
Wiggles & Giggles. "Sound the sirens!" yelled Governor Quinn to his listener. "Close the schools and get going!" Delegate Burns hollered the same news into his phone, and instantly the palace in Honolulu was rocking with cheers. The throng swelled with a lusty singing of the Hawaiian anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, and the Star-Spangled Banner, and then fell silent in prayer. ("I'm a grown man," blubbered Quinn's administrative assistant, Bob Ellis, happily. "Why am I crying...
...jubilation spread instantly from Washington to Honolulu, by way of an open telephone line...
...without regard to which bird they came from originally, to make a package of standard weight. He processes 50,000 birds a day, has his own trucks distributing them all over the South and the Midwest, and as far as San Francisco, from where many are shipped frozen to Honolulu...
Lapping up quaint local customs on his round-the-world junket, West Berlin's personable Mayor Willy Brandt, like many another tourist, got himself deco rated with leis on arrival in Honolulu, later received a wide-eyed introduction, from a willing brace of island beauties, to the pasty pleasures of two-finger...