Word: statehooder
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Work for Worth. All this, to Secretary McKay, is too much. "Once we make a crutch of the Government," he believes, "we are on our way to becoming political cripples." He wants-at the right time and on the right terms-independence for the Indians, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, private initiative on electric power and more private ownership of public lands...
...take only a one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act, and it lost nearly all of the related measures to improve and expand foreign trade. It was unable to meet its pledge to revise the Taft-Hartley law. It was unable to honor its platform promise to give statehood to Hawaii. But it had more victories than it had defeats, and is pledged to return to do battle on all these issues when the new Congress convenes in January...
...assistant. Morse guzzled milk, soup, four glasses of orange juice, three cups of tea. All the while, he solemnly complained that the soup had "enough pepper to choke a horse," that the juice was canned and the tea soapy. Between complaints he discussed such affairs of state as Alaska statehood, the Montana primary election and antimonopoly features of the monopolistic Post Office Department. At 7:30 loose-jointed Bill Langer stumbled in. "Good morning, but I don't have time to talk now," said Talker Morse, and on he talked...
...major legislative items proposed by the Administration, two-the St. Lawrence Seaway and the tax revisions-have passed as clear-cut victories for Ike. Two other bills-Hawaiian statehood and the revisions of the Taft-Hartley law-have been blocked by Democratic action, will probably die with the current Congress. Foreign aid and the broadening of social security have passed the House in good form, with Senate approval very likely...
...wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood...