Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
McKay's remarks and the. decision on statehood that preceded them indicated that the Republicans in Washington had given up hope of carrying Alaska, which had gone Democratic in the last eleven biennial elections, except in 1946 and 1952 (the only times the Republicans won nationally...
...Future. What remains to be done? Ike named expanded foreign trade, improvements in the domestic economy, a new armed-forces reserve program, statehood for Hawaii, changes in the labor-management laws, and civil-rights advances...
...Alaskans off. Aside from the fact that no one likes to be told that he is not a gentleman, what McKay did was to write off the Republican Party in the Territory in the coming fall elections . . . Stateside, McKay may be a great man, but his treatment of Alaskan statehood and his recent visit here left a great deal to be desired...
...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...