Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That obedient arm of Josef Stalin's foreign policy, the U. S. Communist Party, is so enthusiastic about Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy that Earl Browder described the U. S. line of defense in the New Republic last week as "Manila, Honolulu and Nome." Indeed, the No. 1 U.S. Communist let down his hair to the extent of declaring that only courageous action on the part of the President could save from catastrophe ''our country and all the capitalist world...
...support of the Government. I think that is a pernicious system." With this as a jumping-off point Doris Duke's husband, James Henry Roberts Cromwell, proceeded to tell the House Ways & Means Committee how to reform the U. S. tax system. He had flown straight from Honolulu and was fairly bursting with ideas. He wanted to abolish all income, gift, estate and corporation taxes, to replace them with a general manufacturers' sales tax which would force him and his wife to contribute more to the support of the Government...
...Bowl. Honolulu-University of Washington 53, University of Hawaii...
...years ago the Dominion of New Zealand granted exclusive landing rights to Pan American Airways, providing that regular service was established between Auckland and Honolulu before 1938. Basing at Honolulu, P. A. A. last month sent its servicing "mother ship" 1,075 miles due south to Kingman Reef, first stop on the new route. Second stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn...
...made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record was 306 ft., set in 1915 by Frank Crilley of the U. S. Navy who reached the submarine F-4 at the bottom of Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...