Word: kalakaua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where were the lawyers? In the surf, on Waikiki beaches or strolling along Kalakaua Avenue with their families, decked out in colorful sports shirts for the men and matching muumuus for their wives. Outgoing A.B.A. President Chesterfield Smith of Lakeland, Fla., called the no-show performance "deplorable, disgraceful and regrettable." All this past year Smith had been doing his feisty best to stir colleagues into facing up to the public suspicion and derision heaped on lawyers since Watergate. The beach bliss-out was a response the profession can ill afford...
...Factors, Ltd., the company became one of Hawaii's celebrated "Big Five" factoring agencies that grew to power by handling financing, shipping, insurance and other services for the sugar plantations. Walker's father, whose own father had been Chancellor of the Exchequer under Hawaii's King Kalakaua, became president of the company in 1933 and ran it until 1950. But he never expanded beyond Hawaii...