Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment. At the same time, he planned to commute to life imprisonment the sentences of 17 of the 20 men now on Sing Sing's death row (three are convicted police killers). The death penalty already has been abolished in whole or in part in twelve other states-Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Rho.de Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia. With the addition of New York, abolitionists have won over the most populous state thus far-and the one that developed the electric chair in the first place...
...Finally, Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening, one of the most vocal critics of Administration policy in Viet Nam, delivered a furious speech in the Senate: "Unhappily, the U.S. press has been gravely derelict in reporting what has transpired in the OAS with regard to the Dominican crisis. Commentators express doubts regarding the wisdom of expanding our mission to prevent a Communist takeover. Many reports question the extent of Communist infiltration. Yet, to my knowledge, none of the major wire services, newspapers or radio-television systems have taken the trouble to examine the findings of the OAS investigating team...
...afternoon rally in the outdoor Sylvan Theatre near the Washington Monument, Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) told the demonstrators, We are standing on the brink of a world war of cataclysmic proportions...
...early as 1819, reports reached Russia that U.S. seizure of the colony was imminent (it wasn't). The conviction grew that as long as U.S. takeover was inevitable anyway, it would be a shrewd move to surrender Alaska for a song. Such a show of friendship would surely improve the already cordial U.S.Russian relations. The trouble was that the U.S. showed little appetite for the gift-even though the Russians asked only $7,200,000 for the territory. In the end, the U.S. bought Alaska with the feeling that it was doing a favor for a friend, taking some...
...ironies did not end with cession. Russia was kept waiting 15 months for its money while the U.S. House of Representatives-informed by the Foreign Affairs Committee that Alaska's bountiful resources were worthless and the land itself "unfit for civilized men"-overcame its feeling that the price was excessive. Instead of the full rights of citizenship promised by the U.S., the Russians in Alaska got military occupation by U.S. troops, who looted their churches and raped their women. For the next 17 years, Alaska was operated as a U.S. customs district, without government or laws. By then...