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Died. Hazlett Kyle Campbell, 80, last direct descendant of Fur Trader Robert Campbell, rival of John Jacob Astor; of pneumonia; in St. Louis, Mo. Mentally incompetent, Hazlett Campbell apparently left no will, and his $1,850,000 estate will probably be fought for by claimants...
...nearly half a century William Vincent Astor, biggest, richest U. S. landlord, friend and fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront...
Tracing the history of Manhattan's housing problem, the Voice denounces such early settlers as Astor, Wendell, Goelet and Rhinelander, who, the Federal Theatre dramatists fervently proclaim, first grabbed the land and have snugly sat on it ever since. Less through their own foresight than through the industry of the masses, their land increased in value. And the masses got higher rent bills, housing that ran rapidly ramshackle...
...Times itself last August called such Rapprochement "the main purpose of this paper." The titled group behind the purpose is headed by Major Astor...
Britons, even those who approve the pro-German leanings of Major Astor and his friends, could not remember that the sacrosanct Times had ever before been accused of such journalistic and political cheating...