Word: lorrin
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...congress of the Hawaiian People, a collective of several political action groups, charged that American revolutionaries, led by Yale graduates Sanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. Thurston, took lands without Hawaiilan consent...
...kind of crusader who considered it his duty to campaign against the hula as an economic evil which distracted men from their work. Toward the turn of the century, when Hawaii's famous Castle family held a controlling stock interest, the present publisher's grandfather, Lorrin A. Thurston, was put in charge. He, too, was a campaigner, known for his fiery editorials in favor of U.S. annexation. His son, Lorrin P., who took over the paper in 1931, took up the cause of Hawaiian statehood as his crusade, but as a publisher he seemed to lack his predecessor...
...been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down. A dumbstruck Lorrin P. Thurston took his nephew to court, but the suit was dismissed. In revenge, Thurston sold as much stock as he could to Copley...
...hear a Senate Rules Committee investigator tell it last week, whenever Bobby Baker showed up, bankers rolled out a long green carpet. Accountant Lorrin Drennan Jr. told the committee, which has been exploring the moonlighting manipulations of the former secretary to Senate Democrats, that between January 1959 and last November, Baker and his associates had borrowed some $2,784,338 from 22 outfits -including the U.S. Small Business Administration...
...spark of genius in a thoroughly unspectacular outfit of Varsity grapplers will be the prodigious task of Coach Pat Johnson this year. Set back only by the loss of '37 Captain Brooks Cavin and Lorrin Woodman, semi finalist in the Spring Intercollegiates, a determined squad, heavily re-enforced by a brilliant Freshman octet, has begun daily workouts in the Athletic Building...