Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't get a little weary with the luncheons, teas and dinners? . . . If you have a spare hour or two and would like to relax, please consider our home as your own . . . We . . . would treasure the memory of your visit for a lifetime . . . We promise not to mention statehood for Hawaii, Korea, your Cabinet-or Mr. Truman. We will ask you about Mamie, your children, your grandchildren, and let you play with our six-months-old son . . . Hope that we have given a chuckle to a busy man with a big responsibility...
...Universal-International). According to this pseudohistorical western, California might never have become a state had it not been for hard-fighting Prospector Richard Conte. Backed up by a group of angry miners and homesteaders, Conte kills off crooked Land-Grabber Morris Ankrum, who is trying to keep California from statehood. Fortunately, just as Conte is about to be hanged for Ankrum's death, California joins the Union, a general amnesty is declared, and he is free to rejoin beautiful Viveca Lindfors, who plays the daughter of a dispossessed old Mexican family but speaks with a charming Swedish accent. When...
...nation's only living unknown soldier." ¶ North Dakota Republicans chose eight Taft men, one Ike man and five uncommitted delegates to go to Chicago. ¶ North Dakota Democrats elected 16 unpledged delegates (with eight votes). ¶ Hawaii Republicans received assurances that both Taft and Eisenhower would support statehood for the islands, then elected eight uncommitted delegates...
...charter is the first constitution to be enacted under U.S. federal auspices since Arizona and New Mexico joined the union 40 years ago. Puerto Ricans boast that it is the most up to date. After years of emotional turmoil over what governmental status they wanted, Puerto Ricans chose neither statehood nor independence. They decided to become a sort of associated free state or commonwealth. Sumner Welles once described the arrangement as "divorce with alimony...
...State Department, Old Tom's toes twinged again. This time Tom wanted the Senate to get going on a vote on the tidelands oil bill, which means a lot to Texas. The vote was being held up by a discussion of Hawaii's plea for statehood. Hawaii, snorted Minor Statesman Connally from the Senate floor, is just "a province out in the Pacific Ocean ... I think I am a better American than a great many people who live in Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. The majority of the people there are not of American ancestry...