Word: kalakaua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspected of the crime and the conviction of Mrs. Massie's mother, husband and two men for manslaughter. Last week, Flapper's Half Acre made sordid news again. A telephone call for an ambulance brought police to the sumptuous beach house of thick-jowled young Prince David Kalakaua Kawananakoa...
David Kawananakoa, "Prince Koke" to white Hawaiians, is the grandnephew of the last male member of Hawaii's long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house...
THIS LIFE I'VE LOVED-Isobel Field- Longmans, Green ($3). The step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson recalls with a benevolent serenity unusual in artists' memoirs, her varied life in Nevada mining camps, San Francisco's art colony, Hawaiian King Kalakaua's court, in Samoa as amanuensis to Stevenson during his last days...
...rise from a German emigrant (1848) to a San Francisco storeowner (1856) and then a mighty sugar king. Among these was the hard battle with American Sugar Refining Co., ending with the "Sugar Trust" being driven from Mr. Spreckels' territory. And there was the argument with King Kalakaua of Hawaii which ended in defeat, Sugarman Spreckels returning his medals and title and the King allowing rivals to enter the rich sugar territory. And there was the titanic battle with his son Rudolph over sugar after which the son emerged a victor and millionaire...
...Bill" Castle was born in Hawaii in 1878 as a loyal subject of King Kalakaua. His grandfather had come to the Islands from New England with the first mission aries. His father had served the King as Attorney General, later as Hawaiian Minister to the U. S. Young Castle went to Harvard, was graduated in 1900, lingered on at college as an English instructor, as assistant dean in charge of freshmen, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine. When the War came, he went to Washington, opened a Red Cross bureau to relieve prisoners, to find missing men overseas...