Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House dining room of the Capitol one day last week, a youthful dark-haired man was having lunch when he heard the roll-call bell. He jammed the last quarter of his tuna sandwich into his mouth, gulped his coffee and hurried up to a gallery overhanging the Democratic side of the aisle. There, Michael Anthony Stepovich, 39, Alaska's first native-born Governor, watched intently as one by one the Congressmen below called out their votes. A few minutes later, the House passed the Alaska statehood bill. Stepovich glanced at his wife, sitting a few seats away...
Mike was born in a Fairbanks log cabin on March 12, 1919. His father was known far and wide as "Wise Mike," an emigrant from Serbia who followed the gold rush call to Alaska in 1898. Wise Mike was rugged and sometimes mean tempered, and there are those who say he won his nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust...
...only become more intense with statehood. Once federal supervision and federal dollars are removed, Alaskans, who now pay a territorial income tax equal to 14% of their federal tax, will have to dig even deeper to pay increased costs of self-government. They are already strapped by what they call F.C.L.-fearful cost of living. Virtually everything Alaska uses is brought in by steamer and airplane, and because the territory produces so little for ships and planes to haul profitably back to the States, the freight charges boost retail prices to alarming levels. A Seattle dollar shrinks about...
...convinced that in the clear light of events you will do your utmost to call back to their sense of duty those general officers or senior officers who have disobeyed their supreme commander . . . If you break all solidarity with those who have created a seditious movement, you will regain the confidence of the entire nation...
Hide Whips. Jerry, now resplendent in a redlined black suit trimmed with ocelot, had an explanation for that too: "I guess you could call the mix-up a technical hitch." He was not really a bigamist, he added, because his second marriage, not his third, was illegal. It was this way: "I was 14 when I first got married. My wife was too old for me; she was 17. Then I met Jane. One day she said she was going to have my child. Her brothers were hunting me with hide whips. I was real worried. So I married...