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Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor of Alaska in 1939, chunky, mercurial Ernest Gruening has campaigned vehemently for the abolition of his office. Last week, testifying at a congressional hearing on Alaskan statehood, he reiterated his reasons. Alaska, he said, can never really develop until it becomes a full-fledged member of the Union, takes part in presidential elections, chooses its own governor, and sends Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight its battles...
Despite the Governor's eloquence, and other pleas for statehood which were voiced during the seven days of the hearing, the committee postponed its decision indefinitely. As all concerned were well aware, Alaskan statehood was tied up with the statehood aspirations of both...
...preponderance of war art is noticeable in all mediums, with photos of embarking troops, a French village, and a painting of a remote Alaskan church lending an international air to the show...
...just finished a term as an Alaskan federal judge, and was cleaning out his chambers, when somebody came along with a consolation prize. How would he like to start a college in Alaska and become its president? Pennsylvania-born, Bucknell-educated Charles Ernest Bunnell thought he might, on one condition: whenever he decided that the college could get along without him, he would quit and return...
Many an ordinary Alaskan had reason to be grateful to the University. More than 5,000 had taken its five-week courses in mining, taught by roving staff members to would-be prospectors...