Word: sylva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominating the play, Dunster scored three of their four touchdowns in the first half. Right halfback Bob Farina made two of the touchdowns on passes, and also figured in two aerial PAT's. Jim Crabton, left half, and Gordon Wade, quarterback, made the other two six-pointers, with Russ Sylva contributing the third PAT for Dunster...
Died. Lew Brown (real name: Louis Brownstein), 64, Russian-born songwriter (with Buddy De Sylva and Ray Henderson) of top hits (Button Up Your Overcoat, The Best Things in Life Are Free)', of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Eastland Goes West. Thus it was last fortnight that, when the I.L.W.U. staged a mammoth testimonial dinner for convicted Boss Hall at Honolulu's Kewalo Inn, a sprinkling of venturesome politicians were among the 800 diners. Among the venturesome : highly respected Territorial Attorney General Edward N. Sylva, 54, a prominent Catholic, and longtime Communist foe as chairman of the Territorial Commission on Subversive Activities. Sylva explained he had been invited by the rank and file, accepted their invitation to see how the I.L.W.U. conducted itself. But he sat through some misconduct he had not anticipated...
Unions Grow Up. Though integrated Honolulu bears no love for Mississippi's Eastland, it recoiled next morning at a newspaper picture of Harry Bridges and Attorney General Sylva shaking hands while Jack Hall hovered in the background. Shocked, Governor Samuel Wilder King summoned Sylva to his office at Iolani Palace for a 20-minute lecture. The gist of his angry remarks: Sylva had no business honoring convicted Communist Hall, who was on bond pending an appeal "only because of the extreme leniency of American...
...attorney general resigned. Though he denounced Bridges' threat as "a rash and useless act," Sylva offered no apology for attending the dinner. Said he: "No one could have misinterpreted my appearance there. I don't agree with Governor King's approach to the problem at all. There have been many substantial changes in unions in Hawaii in the past five years. Our thinking has got to change to keep abreast of the times...