--bob atwood. >> narrator: bob atwood and c.w.nedden met with editorial boards of major national newspapers. >> what snedden did with the editors and publishers in america was sell them on the virtues of alaska, of what alaska could add to the union, that alaska would be an economic boost to the country. >> the george gallup poll in the late 1950s--1956, '57, when congress was debating the alaska statehood bill-- was running in the high 80s for statehood. 80 anything in a gallup poll is eyebrow-raising. >> narrator: yet a few powerful committee chairmen, mostly conservative southern democrats, kept the statehood bill bo

--bob atwood. >> narrator: bob atwood and c.w.nedden met with editorial boards of major national newspapers. >> what snedden did with the editors and publishers in america was sell them on the virtues of alaska, of what alaska could add to the union, that alaska would be an economic boost to the country. >> the george gallup poll in the late 1950s--1956, '57, when congress was debating the alaska statehood bill-- was running in the high 80s for statehood. 80 anything in a gallup poll is eyebrow-raising. >> narrator: yet a few powerful committee chairmen, mostly conservative southern democrats, kept the statehood bill bottled up with no chance for a floor vote. the alaskans needed some kind of political dynamite to explode that logjam, or statehood would never burst free. as 1958 began, alaska's statehood delegation marked the anniversary of their arrival in washington, d.c. they still had no prospect for a vote on statehood. ernest gruening knew one of the keys would be the wily majority leader of the senate. >> we have a majority

. >>> our friend roman atwood is back with another hilarious prank, and i have to hand it to him, creative. >> it is like i got punched here. >> no. >> because when i do this, it is like this. >> he is going up to people saying, does it look like i got punched here, because when i do this, and he moves the nose and crack. power of sound. >> yep. >> you know what the sound is? n >> biting on a noodle. >> a noodle that has not been boiled, just right out of the box. >> the suggestion that your nose is broken and coupled with that sound is the perfect prank. >> this woman is sitting on the sidewalk and screams. >> i am chewing on the noodle as i do it at the same time. >> oh, that is so cool! >> this woman at the picnic bench is my favorite. >> like that. >> oh. okay. >> noodles. >> oh! oh. >> i love how she laughs, and she is so excited about what he has just taught her. >> you are serious. that is crazy. >> that is bad. >> some people look like they are are going to hurl. some people run away and some people scream in terror, but everybody seems to laugh when they find out. >> that is funny

dominated by the democrats in alaska, with a couple of notable exceptions, among those being bob atwood of the anchorage times, even though he was a pro-gruening republican, but he certainly was a republican, but then the other being c.w. snedden, publisher of the fairbanks daily news-miner. >> well, bill snedden was a great asset to the cause of statehood. he was a hard-nosed republican, very party motivated, but he was all for statehood. >> narrator: bill snedden, the publisher of the fairbanks daily news-miner, was in for a pleasant surprise. president eisenhower had just appointed his good friend, fred seaton of nebraska, as secretary of the interior. >> working with snedden was a young lawyer named ted stevens. stevens was a protégé of c.w. snedden. it was snedden's connections with fred seaton, secretary of interior, helped ted stevens to get a job as a solicitor with the department of interior. so all this time that this was happening, snedden was working on the outside, and ted stevens was sort of laboring inside the bowels, with fred seaton of the interior department, pushing a

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