Word: astor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Astor: Whose lands...
Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...
...Philadelphia, the other to West Point for a meet with Army or March 1. The finals of the New England Division of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association are to take place at New Haven on April 5; the finals of the entire Intercollegiate will be held at the Hotel Astor in New York City on April 17 and 18, concluding the season...
...Lady Astor, famed for Parliamentary courage, canceled an engagement to fly with 100 members of both Houses of Parliament last week in Britain's new passenger dirigible R-101. Into the Noble Lady's breach stepped Labor's Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson, M.P. Then rain canceled the flight...
Last week in Manhattan, a jolly little round-faced man walked into the lobby of a small, sooty-red downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before. He noticed and was pleased with a vase of roses?"from the Executive Staff"?on a shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed...