Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quinn had plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
Another innovator was ex-Army Mess Sergeant Maurice Sullivan (now married to the daughter of a Chinese grocer) who combined with other small grocers in Oahu to buy food stocks by carload lot direct from mainland suppliers. Soon he eliminated Big Five middlemen, who had long controlled virtually all imports from the mainland, is now the owner of the modernistic, eleven-store Foodland chain of supermarkets...
...inexperienced newcomers wasted long hours arguing about whether they or the Republicans had got stuck with the sunniest seats in the legislative chambers, once flew off to the Big Island to watch an eruption along the slopes of Mauna Loa. While the Democrats fiddled, crusty, Eisenhower-appointed Territorial Governor Sam Wilder King sat back and waited for them to run out of time. On the 50th day of the prescribed, 60-day 1955 session, Sam King vetoed the only two Democratic bills. This so disorganized the bewildered Democrats that they squabbled along to the end of the session...
...would permit Hawaiians to buy, "for as little as $50 an acre," a total of 144,480 state-owned acres on four of the islands. "Hoax!" cried the Democrats, and even many a top Republican admitted that much of this land was either worthless or else so encumbered by long-term leaseholds that the plan would never work. Bill Quinn firmly denied that his scheme was just so much poi-in-the-sky, still promises to deliver...
Oren Ethelbert Long, 70, U.S. Senator. A Kansas-born farm boy, Oren Long progressed from a one-room schoolhouse in Earlton to Tennessee's Johnson Bible College (Disciples of Christ) and the University of Michigan. He sailed to Hilo on Big Island in 1917 to become a social worker. Five years later he returned to the mainland to earn his second master's degree, in education at Columbia's Teachers College, then hurried back to the territory. For the next 22 years Long served ably in Hawaii's educational system, rose from high school principal...