Word: judds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington President Hoover pondered the Hawaiian situation with his Cabinet. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur loyally sustained Governor Judd. Secretary of the Navy Adams continued to complain that he was not satisfied with "justice" on the islands...
Meanwhile, with the principals cooped up on the Alton, the Fortescue-Massie case whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd...
...Capitol the Naval Affairs Committee after a cursory inquiry, discovered that Governor Judd had "pardoned" one Benny Ahakuelo, who had pleaded guilty to attacking a Chinese girl. Free, Ahakuelo traveled to New York, represented the Territory in an amateur boxing contest at Madison Square Garden. Back in Honolulu, he was one of the five natives later charged with attacking Mrs. Massie. Governor Judd retorted that he had simply discharged Ahakuelo "from pa-role," that circumstances appeared extenuating and anyway, the Chinese girl had been "willing...
Governor Lawrence Judd attempted to belittle the outburst of crime and racial animosity on his islands, begged the citizenry to remain calm. Said he: "Conditions warrant no occasion for alarm. The law enforcement agencies have the situation fully in hand...
...Navy Department, acting on its own reports from Pearl Harbor, refused to accept Governor Judd's contention that conditions had been exaggerated in the Press. The U. S. fleet maneuvers will be held, as scheduled, next month in Hawaiian waters but neither officers nor men will be given any shore leave in Honolulu or on the island of Oahu because "the situation" there is "too tense...