Word: kamaaina
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...kamaaina'' (oldtimer), like Hawaii's famed missionary-founded families of Alexanders, Baldwins, Castles, Cookes and Thurstons, the new Governor of the "Paradise of the Pacific'' is nevertheless no political carpetbagger or "malihini" (stranger). He went to Hawaii in 1917 as U. S. District Judge, has since been a practicing attorney. A full-sized, out-door-loving man, he was raised in Dillon, Mont. where his family had one of the State's largest cattle ranches and where he began practicing law in 1892 after leaving Washington University (St. Louis). He still goes back...
Judds. No political carpet-bagger or "malihini" (stranger), Lawrence McCully Judd is a native of the Islands as was his father before him. He is a "Kamaaina" (friendly old-timer), "oluolu" (sympathetic) to the native population. For a century his family's history has paralleled Hawaii...
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