Word: statehooder
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...Here economic advance and a big increase in population gave the people an increasing hunger for U.S. statehood...
...campaign has been partly successful. Last summer, with a brief discussion and a 196-to-133 vote, the House approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...
...those reasons, some rock-ribbed conservatives such as wealthy, 72-year-old Walter Dillingham oppose statehood. Said one of them: "In view of world uncertainties and the attempt at outside control of our local affairs, this is not the time for us to cut loose from federal control...
...same reasons some of them take a very dubious view of statehood's energetic champion, Delegate Joseph Farrington...
...this change had given Hawaii an increasing hunger for statehood. Last week, as they remembered old kings, the people of the islands were hoping for U.S. Senators...