Word: mainlands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massie case was an unprecedented flare-up in Hawaiian race relations. But its melodramatic aspects awakened the first general interest that the people of the mainland U.S. had ever shown in their neglected Pacific paradise, 2,400 miles west of San Francisco's Golden Gate. The luridly revealed racial complexities of the territory became the subject of scandalized interest on the mainland, and touched off a deep national uneasiness. In the hysteria, fanned by U.S. editors playing up a gaudy story, and by the U.S. Navy, which saw its gold-buttoned dignity assailed, some U.S. newspapers even tacitly condoned...
...same uneasiness aroused by the Massie affair. Hawaii is knocking at the nation's door. After almost half a century of territorial status, she wants to be admitted as the 49th state. Her aggressive spokesman is Joseph Farrington, an influential publisher, son of an immigrant from the mainland, and Hawaii's Delegate to the U.S. Congress...
...flew over to the Florida mainland for the dedication of the Everglades as the U.S.'s 28th (and eleventh largest) national park. At the tiny (pop. 600) fishing town of Everglades City, he was welcomed by an enthusiastic, pushing crowd of 4,500. A group of Seminole Indians presented him with a rainbow-colored shirt, and a buckskin bag to take to Bess. He stopped to chat with some sponge fishermen, got two sponges as souvenirs...
Last week, after a six months' survey of Hawaii's language problem, a visitor from the mainland, Wabash College's Professor W. Norwood Brigance, warned the territory of the penalties of pidgin. Said he: "If the standard speech [continues to be] pidgin English, Hawaii will never fully become a cultural part of the U.S. Politically it may become the 49th state, but its people . . . will be held in contempt...
...news in island transport was being written by airlines rather than by the once-dominant Matson Navigation Co. Pan American carried 30,000 people to & from the mainland in the first nine months of 1947; United Airlines, 14,000 in the six months since it began to fly to the islands...