Word: alton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THOMAS J. BUCKTON Alton...
...Putting in sewers in Brooklyn. 28. The name of an American businessman, W. Alton Jones, has cropped up amidst the turbulent oil situation...
Maryland is historically one of the closest states in presidential elections. Three times since 1900 the presidential margin there has been less than 2%. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt carried the state only 51 votes ahead of Alton B. Parker; in 1908, William Howard Taft got just 605 more votes than William Jennings Bryan; in 1948, Tom Dewey squeaked past Harry Truman...
Though the assembled thousands included many of the deftest-fingered scalpel wielders and gut tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
Busy Oilman. Spearhead of the new U.S. policy is U.S. Oilman W. Alton Jones, president of the Cities Service Co. (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), who last week left for the U.S. after four weeks in Iran. He had been there as a private citizen, but it was clear that he had at least the tacit approval of the White House and the State Department. Last week, before leaving Teheran, Jones called in reporters. Said he: no deals had been made and no details discussed, but Cities Service might help Iran revive its oil industry, and might buy some Iranian...