Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President announced that Carmi Alderman Thompson of Ohio will make a report on all the chief insular possessions of the U. S. in the Pacific in addition to his expected report on the Philippines (TIME, April 12, THE PRESIDENCY). Mr. Thompson will visit Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, for which natty white costumes must be procured, some advance knowledge acquired...
...American Samoa contains Pago-Pago,* perhaps the most valuable harbor in the Pacific, ceded over to the U.S. by the native king in 1872. Samoa later became a U.S. dependency under a tripartite agreement with Great Britain and Germany. Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...
...Listened to a brief discussion concerning the U. S. occupation of Samoa. Senator Lenroot introduced a bill for the purpose "of doing some measure of justice to those people...
Saluafata, Upolu, Samoa...
...passed. Apprehension grew. Planes put out from Hawaii. Eighteen destroyers of the line were ordered from Samoa to join in the search, and proceeded "with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain...