Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaking engagements, from one end of the archipelago to the other. When there were no speaking dates, he kept moving, visiting workers in the sugar factories, families in remote villages and farms. In the ornate loloni Palace-now one of the last vestiges of Hawaii's monarchy-Quinn ran open cabinet meetings, tape-recorded them, had the recordings played on the radio. Says a Honolulu schoolteacher: "I've never known so much about the running of the territory as I have under Governor Quinn...
Land Reform. One reason Quinn ran so well in the outlying islands is that he managed to make a popular campaign issue out of a problem that of all others is peculiarly and basically Hawaiian: the land shortage...
...earth"-on earth, that is, just long enough to pick the "messenger" for his black-supremacy doctrine. Messenger Elijah dropped his "slave-master name" of Poole, took up the spiritual surname Muhammad (lacking religious surnames, his ministers just use "X"). He founded Temple No. i in 1931, but soon ran into difficulties...
...motorcade started up the steep final hill to his mountaintop palace, Moghabghab's car, just behind it, rounded the bend. Among the hundreds of Druses lining the road, shouting and cheering, someone recognized their old enemy. Within seconds, Moghabghab's car was surrounded. His driver leaped out, ran off to attract the attention of General Adel Chehab, commander in chief of the army, who was just a few yards ahead. As Moghabghab sat helpless in the car, four shots, muffled by the wild shrieks of the crowd, rang out. Moghabghab pitched over dead. His body was dragged from...
...billion for the first half also touched new highs; so did production, which was running at 97% of capacity just before the steel strike. From Republic Steel Chairman Charles M. White came another record report to round out the picture: the nation's third largest steel firm ran up quarterly earnings of $2.57 a share v. 98? last year, half-year earnings of $4.28 a share v. $1.53 last year. Republic's half-year production (5.6 million ingot tons) and sales ($785 million) also broke all previous records...