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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Swing Shift | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Swing Shift | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Hawaii & Alaska: Statehood will be proposed for Hawaii but not for Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE EISENHOWER PROGRAM | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Statehood for Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,SQUALLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,OBIT,OTHER EVENTS,SJPEli it OUf: (THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD FROM LATE JUNE THROUGH MID-OCTOBER 1953) | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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