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Hawall: Maurice Sapienza '37; Attorney General's Office, Iolani Palace, Hololulu...
...opening sessions of the Hawaiian legislature go, last week's was positively funereal. Only two hula dancers-instead of the usual two dozen-undulated through the halls of Iolani Palace, threading in & out the aisles around the legislators. There was only one band and one glee club to accompany them. The 30 members of the house and their 15 colleagues in the senate dispensed with the normal rounds of comradely hotfoots and other such capers and grimly got down to business...
...from the Houston at Honolulu on the Island of Oahu the following morning. Through flagwaving crowds he drove from the city, visited fishing villages, pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight to his bed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
...classmate of Franklin Roosevelt's (1904). But in Hawaii the Dillinghams are better known as the island's railroad tycoons. That night the President took dinner quietly in his hotel with a few guests, including Will Rogers. At 9 p.m., still smiling, he appeared once more at Iolani Palace to witness a lantern parade of Korean, Japanese and Chinese-Americans...
...President, still smiling strongly, made his last appearance next morning on the upper balcony of Iolani Palace where, to a crowd below and all Hawaii by radio. he delivered a seven minute address. Shrewdly he titillated Hawaiians by espousing their favorite claim: "Your Administration in Washington will not forget that you are in very truth an integral part of the nation.'' But nothing did he say of increasing the islands' sugar quota or continuing the historical policy of appointing Governors only from residents of the islands-the two chief reasons for Hawaii's claim of "integrality...