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...reasons could have entered the President's decision to call for a suspension in Hawaii's home-rule law. The threat of a mainland Governor might be enough to keep the island Democratic machine under control. In 1931-32 the Massie rape & murder case gave the insular government a black eye, revealed an unwholesome connection between local politics, local justice and local race feeling. Aware of the strategic importance of the islands, high Army & Navy officers have long demanded civilian rule stronger and better than resident Governors have been able to supply. Of late Big Business...
...Received from the Insular Affairs Committee a bill to grant U. S. citizenship to Samoans, give them a civil government...
...pilots observed no silence. To put crepe on an airplane's wing is against all aviation superstition. Whether or not insular, U. S. airmen never regarded Santos-Dumont as a figure in U. S. aviation. Orville Wright was one of the few who ever...
Puerto Ricans, mindful of the Democratic plank promising "ultimate Statehood," turned thumbs down on the Nationalist (independence) party, voted an overwhelming majority in the insular Legislature to Socialist and Republican candidates...
...Cardozo, who mar ried Mr. & Mrs. Frankfurter. After his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1906, Felix Frankfurter served as an assistant U. S. attorney in the south ern district of New York. Five years later he was appointed law officer of the War Department's Bureau of Insular Affairs. In 1917-18 he was confidential assistant to Secretary of War Baker. Considerable notoriety attached itself to Professor Frankfurter as a result of his sympathy for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, radicals condemned to death in 1927 for murdering a South Braintree paymaster and his guard. While...