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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...
Ralston Crawford wrote that his abstraction of a Hawaiian fishing port, Kewalo, showing two or three slices of plane geometry and a porthole, simply reflected his "interest in finding and expressing ... a bit of order." He seemed to be on safe enough ground there...