Word: statehooders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Wilson ("Molly") Malone, 70, dour, right-wing Nevada Republican, a onetime collegiate middleweight boxing champ who, during two U.S. Senate terms (1947 to 1959), flailed away at foreign aid, NATO, reciprocal trade, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, was one of Joe McCarthy's loudest backers and pride of the silver lobby; of cancer; in Washington...
...times we tend to forget the purpose the original 13 banded together for-to stop permanently outside aggression. Why couldn't we offer the Cuban people statehood? This would be much, much more than K. could offer them...
Last May the Indian government arrested the Sikhs' wily political leader, Master Tara Singh, for advocating a Sikh march on New Delhi to demand statehood. Before disappearing behind prison walls, Tara Singh designated Sant Fateh Singh as his successor. For weeks stretching into months, young Sikhs, shouting "Punjabi Suba Zindabad" (Long live Punjabi state), had poured out of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the Sikh temple at New Delhi-into the waiting arms of tough Indian police, who hustled them off to prison. At one time India's overburdened detention camps held 20,000 Sikhs. Ketones & Communiqu...
...Catholic, and warned by a pair of pastoral letters that supporting Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democrats could lead to excommunication (TIME. Nov. 7), the voters gave well-liked Muñoz Marin 58% of the vote and a fourth straight term as Governor. Statehood Republican Candidate Luis Ferré trailed with 250,000 votes to 456,000 for Muñoz Marin. The church-backed Christian Action Party, on its first try for office, got only 51,000 votes-less than the 10% needed to remain a registered political party. Muñoz Marin...
Munoz Marin's only non-religious opposition, the Statehood and Independence Parties, won together less than 34 per cent of the vote...