Word: oren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...malihini (newcomer)-a handsome, smiling Republican named William Francis Quinn, only a dozen years in the islands, and for only 23 months territorial Governor, by appointment of President Eisenhower. Leading in the race for one of the U.S. Senate seats was former (1951-53) Democratic Territorial Governor Oren E. Long. 70. Way out in front for the other two congressional posts were two Hawaiians of Oriental ancestry: Democratic House Candidate Daniel K. Inouye, 34, World War II Nisei hero, and Republican Senatorial Candidate Hiram Fong, 52, a Chinese-American and a self-made millionaire (see box). Elected Lieutenant Governor...
...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...
...Senate vacancies the Democrats nominated Oren E. Long, 70, a Territorial Senator and onetime Territorial Governor, and Territorial Senator Frank Fasi, 38, who upset William H. Heen, venerable 76-year-old Territorial ex-Senator, who had come out of retirement to make the race. The Republicans nominated Businessman Hiram L. Fong, 52, and Territorial Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama...
...chairman of the watchdog Accounts Committee, who ordered a blackout on senate equipment inventories. Cried Republican Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama, a candidate for the U.S. House: "I didn't even get a pen. Mine was stolen." Said Democratic Senator Sakai Takahashi: "Somebody else grabbed my desk set." Said Senator Oren E. Long, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate: "Darn it all, my gavel was stolen...
With Democrats favored to win in the July 28 general election, Inouye's step-down prevented a party-splitting, potentially ruinous primary battle that had been threatening since a self-declared "team" of septuagenarians set their misting sights on the Senate seats. The team: Oren E. (for Ethelbirt) Long, 70, onetime (1951-53) Governor of Hawaii; William H. Heen, 76, Chinese-American ex-president of the territorial senate (1954-58). Said Bill Heen in asserting his right to a place in the Senate: "I have given long service to the Democratic Party in Hawaii, and I have many friends...