The Boeing plant would stay in Seattle. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce sent Mrs. Gruening a dozen roses and profusely thanked the governor for his shrewd examination of the issue. If there was ever anything that the chamber could do for Gruening in return, he was told, just ask. Sure, replied Gruening unabashedly. Support Alaska statehood. That set the Seattle group squirming, and its polite reply was that the group couldn’t adopt such a resolution because it involved a political issue. Alaska eventually became a state, but to the very end the Seattle Chamber of Commerce never endorsed its
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