When George Clifton Axtell Jr. was born on 29 November 1920, in Ambridge, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Clifton Axtell, was 30 and his mother, Cora Mae Perrine, was 32. He married Phyllis Crafton on 21 March 1942, in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States. He lived in Baden, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Columbus, North Carolina, United States in 2008. He died on 20 August 2011, in Landrum, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
"On December 6, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast. It was covered by 42 stations and became known as the ""State of the Union"" address."
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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from the Middle English personal name Asketill, from Old Norse Ásketill, composed of the elements áss ‘god’ + ketill ‘sacrificial cauldron, helmet’ (see also Haskell ). This name was in use both among Scandinavian settlers in eastern England (esp. Norfolk) and among the Normans.
nickname for a salt merchant or seller of salt, from Middle English hakke-salt ‘chop salt (into pieces)’. The development of the surname to Axtel is evidenced in 16th-century Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
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