Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good idea who they were: members of the small but fanatic lunatic fringe of Puerto Rico's Nationalist movement, which agitates for violent revolt to win independence for the tiny U.S. island commonwealth. A few weeks ago, Congressman Powell roused their anger by speeches in Puerto Rico favoring statehood for the island, and by advocating the wider use of English in Puerto Rican public schools, which are supported in part by U.S. funds and are taught in Spanish. The day before the rock attack, about a hundred nationalists picketed Powell's house with signs saying "Go Home Adam...
...turnkey in the Flagstaff county jail, Ashurst read Blackstone voraciously, later took up the law. At 21 he was elected to the territorial legislature, then to the territorial senate. In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to statehood, he was a natural choice for one of the state's first two U.S. Senate seats (the other: Marcus A. Smith...
...then hopes to take on Democrat Carl Hayden, 84, who has represented Arizona in either the U.S. House or Senate ever since it won statehood...
...East Washington Street in Phoenix, in a new sky-blue, concrete-block building, the first issue of a metropolitan daily newspaper, the morning Arizona Journal, was about to roll off the press. Even the date was auspicious: it was the 50th anniversary of Arizona's statehood. Then, just as the new, automatic machinery swung into action, everything seemed to go wrong...
...Jerusalem: Checking for Eichmann story whether any criminal has ever been hanged during 13 years of Israel statehood. See THE WORLD, Trial...