Word: statehooder
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...sort of pre-Eisenhower Eisenhower Republican: conservative on the central domestic question of the role of Government in national life, liberal on civil rights, internationalist in foreign relations. As a Congressman, he took several stands that the Eisenhower Administration later adopted and translated into law: civil rights legislation, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, relinquishment of federal claims to control of the tidelands. As a freshman Congressman, Nixon supported Harry Truman's program of aid to Communist-menaced Greece and Turkey, and he has remained a steadfast backer of foreign...
...plenty to remember. A lifelong Republican and small-d Democrat. Allen showed his colors privately and in print at every opportunity. In 1912, two years after his arrival in Honolulu from the sports department of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he sparked the crusade that culminated last year in Hawaiian statehood. He backed legislation-opposed by the islands' powerful sugar and pineapple interests-that opened the public schools to children of imported Oriental laborers. A consistent critic of discrimination against any race, he has lived to see Hawaii's eight major ethnic groups blend in a harmony that many...
...viewer who does not recognize that the sennets and flourishes here mean Montague and Capulet is a dull fellow indeed. Sure enough, while Burton becomes a millionaire cannery owner and his blood enemy Ryan is transformed into a member of the Alaska legislature who crusades for statehood, their children grow up, marry and die violent but poetic deaths during a dogsled race to the obstetrics ward. However, an infant daughter survives the star-crossed union, and in practically no time at all (as Hollywood time flies) she is a grown-up tomato with troubles...
...first state with linguistic boundaries, setting a precedent for the big boundary reshuffle of 1956, many Indians objected that language was not the only basis on which to establish a community of interest. They felt that Nehru risked encouraging a chain reaction of fragmentation, with different sections demanding statehood on any convenient pretext just when India most needed to find unity in its bewildering diversity...
Concluded the bishop: "The people of our colonies should be given a fair opportunity to choose between independence or statehood. The present condition in Puerto Rico is that Governor Muñoz Marín is, by his own will, imposing upon the people of Puerto Rico and on the Congress of the United States an independence which was never granted, and a 'voluntary association' which is absurd unless independence has been granted...