Word: liliuokalani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourists were enchanted. Before she could say Liliuokalani, Clara was the barefoot toast of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and a great tourist attraction. But it took her ten years to catch on with the home-folks. Last week, as Hilo Hattie, Clara was Hawaii's No. 1 radio hit, and the talk of Polynesia...
Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory...
...good fortune to be sitting in the A.P.'s Manila office on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was an early president of U.P., but Clark went to work for the A.P. instead, worked first in Latin America, then in the Far East (where he married a Hawaiian princess, Liliuokalani Kawananakoa). Friends in the Japanese Army tipped him off in November 1941 that it was time to get out of Shanghai...
...been with A.P. since 1929. He was born to newspapering: his father was a founder and first president of the United Press, his mother wrote for newspapers. When Lee turned up in Honolulu in 1936 as A.P. bureau chief, he married a native princess, Liliuokalani Kawana-nakoa...