Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original 13 States, Vermont maintained herself as an independent Republic for 14 years against the British Empire, New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, each of which claimed her territory; did not join the United States as the 14th State until her terms and territorial claims were accepted...
Still as independent as George Norris himself, Republican Vermont went Republican Maine one better in 1936 by refusing a $10,000,000 National Parkway gift while Maine accepted Passamaquoddy. Yet to make doubly sure, the Green Mountain State still rears Vermonters as independent of her Republican traditions as Stephen A. Douglas, the Little Giant whom she bore and nursed at her Abolitionist breast to lead the last Democratic stand against Abraham Lincoln...
...Vermont's legislature is now bicameral chiefly out of respect for the independence of her little towns. In the lower house each city and town, from Glastenbury with seven inhabitants, to Burlington with 25,000 has one representative...
TIME'S National Affairs department is shocked at its carelessness in listing Vermont among the 13 original States...
...declared that the chief of protocol had had great difficulty in seating the evening's guests because of the presence of the "Ambassador from Maine." At his press conference next day a jesting newshawk asked if the Navy's two new battleships would be named "Maine" and "Vermont." The grinning President replied that the law requires battleships to be named for states "in the Union...