Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harsh and unkind things have been said about the U. S. rulers of Haiti, Nicaragua, the Philippines. Samoan Islanders appreciate Captain Stephen Victor Graham, U. S. Governor of Eastern ("American") Samoa. Most appreciative of all are the inhabitants of Western ("British") Samoa, mandate of New Zealand, eight of whom were killed by New Zealand police a fortnight ago. Last week the British cruiser Dunedin plowed through the South Pacific from Aukland, under orders to cow Samoans again. In Wellington, New Zealand's Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward looked owl-solemn above his waxed mustache and announced...
...Samoan hatred of New Zealand commenced in 1918 when a ship, some of whose crew had pneumonic plague, was given clearance papers from New Zealand to Samoa. Western Samoa then had a total population of 40,000. Nine thousand caught the plague and died...
...down) off Japan and the Philippines, Merriam Ridge off Chile and Hayes Peak off California (both nearly 2 mi. high). Last week came news of another peak, 1½ mi. high, discovered 300 miles northwest of Hawaii by the nonmagnetic brigantine Carnegie shortly before she exploded in the Samoan Islands (TIME, Dec. 9). Name of the new peak is to be, unless controverted for some politic reason, Ault Peak, after the late Captain James Percy Ault of the Carnegie who was killed by the ship's explosion, whom the Carnegie institution already has honored at its annual year...