Word: kahanamoku
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists, but not native Hawaiians, are impressed by the name of Duke Kahanamoku. The onetime (1912, 1920) Olympic swimming champion, surfboard rider, swimming instructor and Waikiki Beach figure was simply christened "Duke," is no member of the islands' decayed nobility. But as a result of last fortnight's election, Duke Kahanamoku became peace officer of an area far larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over...
...Honolulu Ad Club crew after a collision had wrecked their own ship, was the smallest boat in the fleet-27 ft. over all. Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which...
Three and one-half miles off Diamond Head, Honolulu, a motorboat carrying "Sergeant" Kahanamoku, brother of famed swimmer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, and a friend, ran out of gasoline. Kahanamoku slipped into the turbulent, sharky water, grasped the bow of the motorboat and, while the friend paddled with a board, towed it in four hours to a beach near Waikiki...
...bill was introduced in the Hawaiian Senate providing a $350 monthly pension for Duke Kahanamoku, oldtime Olympic swimmer, "for services rendered." Once the superintendent of a Honolulu public building, Kahanamoku was recently demoted to janitor. "That looked like an invitation to get out," said...
...Cincinnati, Duke Poao Kahana-moku of Hawaii, who has been on every U. S. Olympic swimming team since 1912, arrived by airplane for the final trials. Two men qualified in each of the 100-metre free style heats. In his heat Kahanamoku finished third, pulled himself wearily out of the pool, shook the water out of ears, looked gloomily at his muscular legs as if dissatisfied with the black sunburn which he has spent 42 pleasant years acquiring. Said he about his legs: "They were O. K. for 75 metres-after that it was just too bad." Not greatly surprised...