Word: statehooders
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Idaho's Republican Senator Henry C. Dworshak last week performed an odd trick: he passed himself on a merry-go-round. Just a few days before, Dworshak had shifted away from support of Hawaiian statehood unless it was coupled with statehood for Alaska. His switch produced an 8-to-7 vote by the Senate Interior Committee to report Hawaii and Alaska together. Dworshak thereby helped set up a combined target on the Senate floor for those who are 1) against Hawaiian statehood, 2) against Alaskan statehood, and 3) against statehood...
...rich field for investment in Alaska as a state, got a promise from Chairman Hugh Butler that Alaska would be approved by the committee soon after Hawaii. With that assurance. Henry Dworshak provided the swing vote in another 8-to-7 decision, this one to report Hawaiian statehood favorably and separately...
Hawaii & Alaska: Statehood will be proposed for Hawaii but not for Alaska...
...Statehood for Hawaii...
Senator George W. Malone, who doesn't want statehood for Hawaii, says: "If we were to accept Hawaii, I am sure that less than 1% of the entire population would ever be able to visit the United States to observe life and conditions on the mainland [TIME, May 25]." His statement parallels another statistic: none of the boys from Hawaii who have died fighting for the mainland will ever observe life and conditions here...