Word: alton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgotten who it was that Alton B. Parker ran against and in what year ... or the name of Lincoln's first-term Vice President . . . you probably can use TIME'S 1964 Election Year Argument Settler. This handy wheel spins off 1,520 useful facts about United States Presidents and campaigns past and present...
...only the state of "domicile"-where the parties really live-has power to end marriages. State courts may question whether Mexico has jurisdiction to grant a valid divorce to people with their return plane reservations in their pockets. Thus, many lawyers would agree with California's Judge Roger Alton Pfaff: "A Mexican divorce is really a fraud upon the state where the parties are domiciled...
...sweetheart. Bent on settling in Chicago, he went on to the big city alone because he did not have enough money for her fare. As soon as he could get a railroad pass, he brought his bride to Chicago. For nine years Gilbert worked as a fireman on the Alton Railroad. In those days railroad firemen worked hard. In heat so intense that it once made his nose bleed, Gilbert sometimes shoveled as much as 20 tons of coal in the course of a 16-hour day. He signed up as a member of Chicago Lodge 707 of the Brotherhood...
...Gilbert himself never featherbedded aboard a diesel. Before the Alton line switched from steam locomotives, Gilbert laid down his shovel and moved into a new career as a fulltime union official. Elected president of Lodge 707 in 1931, he moved on to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cleveland in 1942 as a clerk, promptly started a climb up the ladder of union bureaucracy by wrestling with a 90-day crash course in shorthand so that he could be come a stenographer (he still uses shorthand to take voluminous verbatim notes at meetings). Blessed with an adhesive memory for names...
Died. John Cardinal D'Alton, So, Archbishop of Armagh and Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, a noted ancient historian (Horace and His Age), and spiritual father to 3,284,331 Irishmen, who long worked quietly for political union between the Irish Republic and the six British counties of Northern Ireland, was instrumental in ending the I.R.A.-inspired bloodshed between his countrymen on the divided island; of a heart attack; in Dublin...