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" The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. "
Papers Relating to the Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States - Page 48
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1893 - 261 pages
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The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations

Lewis D. Eigen, Jonathan Paul Siegel - Education - 1993 - 810 pages
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Lili'uokalani

Aldyth Morris - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 96 pages
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota

Reneé S. Flood - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 398 pages
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Multiculturalism and Representation: Selected Essays

John Rieder, Larry E. Smith - Social Science - 1996 - 252 pages
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The Enduring Vision: From 1865

United States - 1996 - 1085 pages
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Native American Estate: The Struggle Over Indian and Hawaiian Lands

Linda S. Parker - Social Science - 1996 - 276 pages
...that he declared an American protectorate over Hawai'i, Stevens wrote to the secretary of state that "the Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it."74 Congress delayed action on the annexation treaty until President-elect Grover Cleveland took...
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Out of Many: A History of the American People, Volume 1

John Mack Faragher - History - 1997 - 1152 pages
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Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building

Richard Drinnon - Social Science - 1997 - 614 pages
...view given concurrent visual form in this cartoon — the US minister to Hawaii pronounced it finally "fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." A succession of golden hours seemingly struck when Hay joined McKinley's administration, though Canada...
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John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy

Richard H. Immerman - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 252 pages
...Stevens and Marines from the USS Boston proved decisive in the revolution's success in January 1893. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it," Stevens wrote.* Harrison wholeheartedly agreed, and negotiations for a treaty of annexation fell to...
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James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire

Edward P. Crapol - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 188 pages
...submitted it to the Senate for approval. At the time, Stevens enthusiastically wrote the State Department: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." The incoming president, Democrat Grover Cleveland, who had defeated Harrison in the 1892 election,...
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