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...unless it was coupled with statehood for Alaska. His switch produced an 8-to-7 vote by the Senate Interior Committee to report Hawaii and Alaska together. Dworshak thereby helped set up a combined target on the Senate floor for those who are 1) against Hawaiian statehood, 2) against Alaskan statehood, and 3) against statehood...
...spoils of wanderlust have filled almost every room with exotic gifts. An undergraduate who stopped at the wreck of the old Parker House after its demolition in 1926, brought in he first decoration, a silver an gold cornice above the library's front window. One student donated two Alaskan gods sculptured in a style combining prehistoric and ultra-modern art. They stare at each other across the library and supposedly symbolize diseased minds. On another wall hangs a Chinese painting of a banquet, given the Clinic as a Christmas present. And throughout the house, Oriental art covers the walls, providing...
...still another occasion, when TIME was preparing a story on Alaskan defenses (Nov. 6, 1950), says Atwood: "I got a wire almost a yard long. Some of the information was common knowledge up there, but the answers had to come from the commanding general at headquarters of the Alaskan Command before they could be printed. I knew he wouldn't want to answer them, so I just handed him the wire. When he started to read it, he blew his top. 'They want to know everything,' he roared. But I just kept asking him how to answer...
Last week, after six weeks of business travel from Washington to San Diego (including conferences on Alaskan statehood, oil development, air transport) and meetings with the Pacific Northwest Trade Association in Tacoma, Atwood was homeward bound. Among his immediate projects: a $50,000 second floor for his newspaper plant...
Committee voted, 8-7, to tack Alaskan statehood on to the Hawaii statehood bill and to hold time-consuming hearings on both questions. This move to delay the action on Hawaii was sponsored by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, who is on record for Hawaiian statehood but who wants Democratic Alaska considered at the same time. The man who made Anderson's move successful was Nevada's Republican Senator George W. ("Molly") Malone. who doesn't want statehood for either Alaska or Hawaii. His switch turned a Democratic minority of the Interior committee into...