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...State Department, Old Tom's toes twinged again. This time Tom wanted the Senate to get going on a vote on the tidelands oil bill, which means a lot to Texas. The vote was being held up by a discussion of Hawaii's plea for statehood. Hawaii, snorted Minor Statesman Connally from the Senate floor, is just "a province out in the Pacific Ocean ... I think I am a better American than a great many people who live in Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. The majority of the people there are not of American ancestry...
Next week "those fellows"-the U.S. Senate-will take up the petition by the Territory of Hawaii for admission to the union as a full-fledged state. Hawaii has been petitioning for statehood for 98 years-and from the talk in the cloakrooms, Joe Farrington knows the odds are against him again this time. Far worse, the talk in the cloakrooms is the quid pro quo talk of politics, e.g., if Hawaii is Republican, then we should let in Democratic Alaska. Joe Farrington's lament is provoked by the fact that nobody is asking the only question that matters...
Lone Star (MGM) shows how Clark Gable and Ava Gardner helped persuade the Republic of Texas to become one of the United States. Gable plays a soldier of fortune dispatched by ex-President Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) to Texas Patriarch Sam Houston with a message urging Texas statehood. Ava ("That's a lot of woman") is an Austin editor who sides with Broderick Crawford, would-be dictator of an independent Texas empire, until Gable closes her eyes in kisses and opens them to what is best for Texas...
...Dealers are a minority; the majority, made up of loose-knit groups without common aim or discipline, did not and could not accept responsibility for developing a program. The frustration and division of Congress was such that it made no progress on such measures as the St. Lawrence seaway, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, reapportionment and redistricting of congressional districts...
...first Hawaiian newsman to win a Nieman fellowship, Lawrence K. Nakatsuka, is assistant city editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's largest daily and a staunch exponent of that island's statehood...