Word: statehooder
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...became Governor of Puerto Rico in 1968 after strongly advocating eventual statehood for the territory, and is known for his liberal labor policies and profit-sharing managerial techniques, the early '60's. In this role, his behind-the-scenes conversations with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson led to the appointment of scores of Black Americans to high government positions...
Computing Losses. Fires cause havoc in Alaska every year, but the Federal Bureau of Land Management, which has supervision over much of the state's wilderness, considers this fire season the worst since statehood was achieved ten years ago. Authorities hired 2,192 men to stop the flames. As the planes attacked a blaze by dropping chemical retardants at its edge, bulldozers would rush in to cut firebreaks through the timber. Fourteen Army riverboats were readied on the Yukon and Tanana rivers to rescue villagers trapped by the flames...
...been created from the territory of older states before. For example, in 1792, Kentucky and was West formed from Virginia - part also of from part Virginia of Virginia - in 1863. Mailer proposes that the first step, following his election, should be a city-wide referendum on the question of statehood for the city...
What forced Ayub to hasten his departure more than anything else was a challenge from East Pakistan's popular Sheik Mujibur Rahman. The impatient "Mujib" threatened to carry to the National Assembly his demands for purbodesh, a kind of associate statehood, for East Pakistan's Bengalis, which would seriously weaken the central government in Rawalpindi. If Mujib's East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber...
...helps explain how so unconventional a man as Gruening got to the Senate. He came to Alaska as a New Dealer from Washington, and as a Federal appointee, he had fourteen years of secure power during which to establish himself for the future. During the negotiations leading to Alaskan statehood, Gruening was tentatively appointed Senator; and on January 3, 1959, he became the new state's first representative in Washington...