 | Richard Warner Van Alstyne - History - 1974 - 244 pages
...Stevens, whom Blaine had sent over in 1889. By February 1893, Stevens was in a position to tell Blaine: ' The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it '. Meanwhile the large planters, in control of the government, had sent a minister to Washington to... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee - 1975 - 340 pages
...exultant enthusiam with which in a letter to the State Department dated February 1, 1896, he declares: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." AS a further illustration of the activity of this diplomatic representative, attention is called to... | |
 | United States - 1982 - 674 pages
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 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Hawaii - 1984 - 958 pages
...exultant enthusiasm with which in a letter to the State Department dated Feb. 1, 1893, he declares: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." As a further illustration of the activity of this dipolmatic representative, attention is called to... | |
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The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. 
