Word: maui
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerson was born on the Island of Maui in 1845, of missionary parents. As a boy he began to collect tree snails from the Hawaiian mountain ridges, valleys, and low coastlands. Since his collections were begun, deforestation of the lowlands to create farm and grazing land, and importation of foreign animal and insect posts, have led to the extermination of many of the species...
...chief umpire in the Hawaiian games, the sinking of his flagship the Pennsylvania by a submarine was only simulated. Unfortunately for Lieut. Commander John F. Gillon and his mechanic, Glen Beal, the fatal plunge of their plane into the sea was not simulated. Two other planes cracked up off Maui early in May, two landplanes flopped into the shallows off French Frigate Shoal, other crashes were rumored, none fatal...
...held at her pier for ten hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
Sportswriters were hard put to explain Varoff's performance, which boosted the accepted world's record up 2 1/8 in. Born 23 years ago of Russian parents on the Island of Maui in Hawaii, he won no great notice as a San Francisco schoolboy-vaulter, none at all as a University of Oregon freshman. Flunked from college, he became a janitor in San Francisco, entered the semi-final Olympic tryouts in Los Angeles last fortnight, for the first time in his life cleared 14 ft. Fearful of losing his janitor's job, George Varoff had needed much...
While their parents were yachting near Maui Island, Margaret Ellen ("Peggy") and Nackey Elizabeth, young daughters of Editorial Director Robert Paine Scripps (Scripps-Howard Newspapers) went with their governess to pick flowers at the Oahu Country Club outside Honolulu. Driving back, their native chauffeur leaned out to arrange the flowers, let the car plunge over a 25-foot embankment. Director Scripps and wife sped back by airplane, found Daughter Peggy with broken skull and ankles, Daughter Nackey with internal injuries, but the whole party out of danger...