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Family: While on duty at Schofield Barracks in 1932, married Maude Mc-Keever, daughter of a sugar broker on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Children: Richard, an Air Force Reserve pilot; Nathan Alexander, a promising pianist; Olivia, now at Holton-Arms Junior College in Washington. General Twining's elder brother, Robert, Annapolis, 1916, is a retired captain; his younger brother, Major General Merrill Twining, Annapolis, 1923, is deputy chief of staff of U.S. Marine Corps...
...tourists discover the really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...
Then Bridges' men got another blow. George Aguiar, a member of the legislature from the island of Kauai, resigned from the territorial Democratic Party, charged that its control on Kauai was in the hands of I.L.W.U. straw bosses. He joined Ignacio's revolt...
Garden of Eden. In the travel-bureau ads, Hawaii is the Garden of Eden. As far as oceanographers are concerned, it is a well-nigh totally submerged volcanic range spread across 2,000 miles of ocean. Its economic orbit includes six chief islands, of which Kauai is furthest west. The archipelago's commercial heart is the city of Honolulu (pop. 267,000), on Oahu, which is Eden-with a touch of Indianapolis...
...sooner did the Vagabond reach Honolulu and became friendly with Shirley Temple than he flew north and west to Kauai, advertised by The Hawaiian Tourist Bureau as the "Garden Isle." There were not many gardens, as far as he could see. Then again he could see little but what the native Louis pointed out from the depths of a Model A which rattled as if it had been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis...