Word: statehooder
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Almost never in their long history have the Jews achieved political unity. In modern Israel, though they have gotten together to achieve statehood, the Jews are politically as disunited as ever. The tiny country has accomplished a great deal since its birth three years ago. It has managed to 'survive as a state, in itself no mean feat; it has built an army which has the respect of the hostile Arab nations, and it has gathered in some 600,000 immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Middle East. But political factions, seizing on social and economic grievances, keep Israel...
...years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...
Under the new constitution, which will be written by a constituent assembly still to be elected, Munoz expects that Puerto Rico will form a new kind of political entity under the U.S. flag. It will be neither a territory nor a state; the tax burdens of statehood would be far too heavy. A fertile maker of political phrases, the governor has not yet found the exact word to describe the system under which Puerto Rico will eventually live. "If the U.S. were the British Empire," he once said, "you might call it dominion status...
...Major ones: Alaska and Hawaii statehood, anti-poll tax, FEPC-all later beaten in the Senate...
Onstage. In such aimless chantings Congress did not get much work done. Dixiecrats successfully carried off a filibuster which killed the Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills for this session. The bills had been at the top of Mr. Truman's legislative list for the lame-duck session...