Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President also: ¶ Signed, as part of his anti-inflation campaign, an executive order 1) creating an inter-agency Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs and 2) naming his economic adviser, Raymond Saulnier, as its chairman. ¶ Accepted the resignation of his assistant for federal-state relations: Arizona's ex-Governor Howard Pyle, who is leaving to head the National Safety Council. ¶ Held a get-together with brothers Edgar (Tacoma lawyer), Earl (general manager of an Illinois newspaper chain), and Milton (president of Johns Hopkins University) to celebrate Edgar's 70th birthday. ¶ Boosted...
Next day the meeting heard from the new Senate campaign chairman, Arizona's right-wing Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had flown out from Washington, been weathered in at Chicago, wired an urgent message. Alcorn's strategies, he said...
Using six pens to be handed out as souvenirs, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation in the White House at 12:01 p.m., Jan. 3, 1959 that admitted Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. Last state to be admitted: Arizona, Feb. 14, 1912. Reason for the precise timing: the 85th Congress expired at noon, and signature any earlier would have given Alaska's two Senators and single Representative a seniority lead on the new members of the 86th Congress...
Holiday Bowl Football Game (CBS, 1:30 p.m.). Arizona State College at Flagstaff and Northeastern State College of Oklahoma kick off the post-season football parade...
...teeth and is largely disregarded. The building-trades unions, biggest in the state, do not protest the law simply because they fear that if.they get it revoked they might get a law that would hurt them. In four other states-South Carolina, North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona-the situation is much the same; the laws have had virtually no effect on union or labor relations. There are many ways to get around them. In Virginia unionists in the building trades have found a simple way to defeat the anti-closed-shop provisions of the state law: when a nonunion member...