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...when the monarchy passed away a white aristocrat named Sanford Ballard Dole became President of the Hawaiian Republic. In 1900, when the Republic became a U. S. Territory, he was named its first Governor and the same families, the Castles, the Cookes, the Binghams, the Dillinghams, the Judds, continued to rule. Like southern planters before the Civil War they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos...
...Brewer & Co. ("oldest American corporation west of the Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses in 1931 and 1932, his Hawaiian Pineapple Co. was reorganized, and Castle & Cooke took a hand in its management...
...death by heart failure of her father, Dutch Prince Consort Henry (TIME, July 9). The two women drove at once to The Hague and sat an hour with the corpse. In this sad hour Dutch proletarians might have buried their quarrel with Her Majesty's Government over recent dole payment cuts. Instead they chose to erupt at Amsterdam in savage riots which spread through 17 districts and forced Her Majesty to order out troops with machine-guns and tanks...
Canny Dutchmen, the rioters began by looting sellers of building supplies, built high bullet-proof barricades. They screamed charges that the stinginess of Her Majesty's Government is an outrage and the recent cut of the dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week is a crime. A group of Communist Deputies rushed to the government offices shouting, "We demand to see the Minister of Interior...
...into every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...