Word: hawaiian
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...Postponed action on Hawaiian statehood after the Interior Committee decided that its members should go to Hawaii for hearings. Some committee members were troubled by the far-flung boundaries (from Palmyra to the Kure Islands) set in the House bill, others were enticed by thoughts of Hawaii in the spring...
...Passed (274-138) a bill to make Hawaii the 49th state. A group of Democrats tried but failed to block statehood for Hawaii (pop. 499,800) until Alaska (pop. 128,650) also becomes a state. This is the third Hawaiian statehood bill passed by the House in six years; both previous bills died in the Senate. The new bill will be opposed by some of the Senate's Southern Democrats-who like neither Hawaii's political complexion nor its lack of a color line-but the prospects for a 49th state are better than ever before...
...Hawaiian statehood bill sailed serenely through the House Territories Subcommittee to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, a strong indication that Hawaii would get its flag star, and soon...
...Nominated Samuel Wilder King, 66, to be governor of Hawaii. Republican King, who has Hawaiian blood, was delegate to Congress from the island territory (1935-42), graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a naval officer in both World Wars...
Died. Clark Lee, 46, war correspondent and author (They Call It Pacific, One Last Look Around), who escaped from Corregidor, covered the Pacific war from start to finish before turning free lance and settling down on Monterey peninsula with his wealthy wife, Hawaiian Princess Liliuokalani Kawananakoa (granddaughter of the late Queen Liliuokalani); of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif...