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...problem, a visitor from the mainland, Wabash College's Professor W. Norwood Brigance, warned the territory of the penalties of pidgin. Said he: "If the standard speech [continues to be] pidgin English, Hawaii will never fully become a cultural part of the U.S. Politically it may become the 49th state, but its people . . . will be held in contempt...
Kansas City also had a veterans' convention last week, with parade, outlandish costumes, drum, corps and sore feet. But at the 49th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans (average age: 72), there was little tipping and no water-squirting. The boys of Santiago Bay, San Juan hill and the Philippines just wanted to sit and bat the breeze about their experiences back...
...49th State...
Your splendid article on Alaska [TIME, June 16], with the cover showing the 49th star [with question mark] . . . gives warranted attention to the Territory of Alaska and its capable and energetic Governor, Ernest Gruening-energetic, advisedly, for he was recently my partner in tennis, and he plays a bang-up game with a Harvard accent...
WASHINGTON, June 30--The House voted today to make the Hawaiian Islands a state and add a 49th star to the flag...