Word: statehooder
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...Backed Hawaii's and Alaska's bid for statehood...
Hawaii & Alaska. Killed in the House, statehood for the territories probably is further from realization than at any time in a decade...
...continued, barking out the words like parade-ground commands: refugee-act amendments, water resources, the Upper Colorado, Frying Pan and Cougar dam projects, customs simplification, minimum wage, the atomic peace ship, Hawaiian statehood...
Steam Gone. The House voted 218 to 170 to send the statehood bill back to committee-and thereby kill it for at least this year. Democrats split almost evenly...
...together or separate, the chances of Alaska and Hawaii are dim for the foreseeable future; the steam has gone out of the statehood movement. Said California's Democratic Representative Clair Engle, an advocate of statehood, in opening the House debate: "If this legislation fails, it may postpone for many years, if not forever, the entrance of these incorporated territories as states-of the Union...