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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...
Gruening told him. Roosevelt disregarded the advice, but the next year Gruening was appointed director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories and Island Possessions, became a vigorous and vocal New Dealer, began a fascinated study of Alaska and its problems.
In 1939 Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor. Alaska took the appointment with steady nerves. The Juneau Chamber of Commerce had the Governor in to lunch. He attended a gathering of Indians at Wrangell's Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, responded politely when one Chief Shakes made him a member of...
Dr. Gruening went on the warpath. He cried that Alaska, victimized by absentee government, was being gutted by an absentee industry served by seasonal labor. He urged the Territory to claim a bigger share of the wealth taken from its resources. He asked Alaskans to set up a general territorial...
*Not to be confused with Alaska's Ernest Gruening (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).