Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Interior Committee approved Alaskan statehood 14 to 1 (Louisiana's Democratic Senator Russell Long). The bill follows one for Hawaiian statehood to the Senate floor, where opponents will attempt to link them together and then kill them both...
...Senato Insular Affairs Committee of the 83rd Congress is considering the Hawailan Statehood Bill. In this year, more than in any other year since 1903, when the first bid for statehood was made, Congressional approval of the Statehood Bill is likely. Laxity at such a critical time as this would be foolish and would exhibit a direct abuse of the efforts made these previous years by the supporters of statehood for Hawali, who in 1950 voted 82,788 to 27,109 in favor of a state constitution drafted by elected representatives...
...PLEBISCITE: The citizens of Hawaii by free expression of their will showed their overwhelming desire for statehood in a plebiscite in 1940. Both major political party platforms and nearly 90 percent of the nation's editors have endorsed statehood, along with numerous national, civic and business organizations. The latest Gallup Poll survey (1953) shows nearly a 10-to-1 majority in favor of admitting Hawaii into the Union...
...agree that many who favor Hawalian statehood are moved by their sentiments towards those God-gifted isles in the pacific. Yet, more than heartfelt sentiments, there are a number of arguments for statehood which every fellow United States citizen should consider. Here briefly are some of the arguments for statehood...
Very soon, Congressmen will be voting on the statehood issue. Through your newspaper we may stir enough interest in the people to write to their Congressmen, tolling them that they are definitely in favor of Hawaiian statehood. . . . Clinton Ching '56, President Hawaii Club of New England