Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sugar factories, families in remote villages and farms. In the ornate loloni Palace-now one of the last vestiges of Hawaii's monarchy-Quinn ran open cabinet meetings, tape-recorded them, had the recordings played on the radio. Says a Honolulu schoolteacher: "I've never known so much about the running of the territory as I have under Governor Quinn...
...time he announced for the first post-statehood gubernatorial election. Bill Quinn was perhaps the most widely known territorial Governor in the island's history. Flanked by an eager organization, he redoubled his trips into the island precincts, remembered names, always had plenty to talk about in his chats with the voters. Nonetheless, in the June primaries Democrat Burns outpolled Republican Quinn by a fateful 3-2. This was just the kind of odds that suited Quinn bes't. He cultivated the independents, pounded hard at the news that Burns's powerful backer, the I.L.W.U., was flirting...
...purveyor of this cold black hatred is known to some 70,000 Negro followers (he claims 250,000) in 29 U.S. cities as Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, head of a stern, demanding, disciplined black-supremacist religious sect called "the Moslems."* Calmly feeding the rankling frustration of urban Negroes, the Moslems reach deep among the least-educated, lowest-paid Negroes jammed into big-city slums from Harlem to Los Angeles. Muhammad's virulent anti-Americanism and antiSemitism, plus his elite corps of dark-suited, shaven-polled young "honor guards," has lifted him well beyond...
...generations." And then, in a peroration that was only a sad echo of the old Nye, Bevan concluded: "This is the worst Parliament I have been in. Some Parliaments have been called 'Long Parliaments.' Some have been called 'Rump Parliaments.' But this will be known by history as the squalid...
...tensions, conflicts, and jealousies begin to mount until they work themselves to their fateful climax. Towards the end of the play, it is said of Eddie that he is pure--not purely good, but at a time when men must settle for half, he allows himself to be wholly known. It is to Mr. Lurtsema's credit that he has captured the nobility of Eddie as well as the fire and energy which give him some electrically truthful moments on this small arena stage...