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...keep the $1,720,000 which it owed the Government in liquidated damages for retiring the ship by agreeing to build a new ship of the Washington class. To Mr. Mitchell it all spelled "favoritism and appearance of corruption," the broad inference being that the favorite was Vincent Astor, who happens to be a director and one of I. M. M.'s big stockholders as well as President Roosevelt's creditor in the matter of yachting trips on the Nourmahal...
Discredited though Mr. Mitchell was, he had touched on one issue which may rise from the over-ailed Midwest to plague President Roosevelt in 1936-his intimacy with Vincent Astor and Mr. Astor's interest in I. M. M. Still unmindful or unworried about the hazard in spite of his warnings from his own political pulse-takers, President Roosevelt went out of his way last week to repeat that he favored the I. M. M. deal...
...having turned the St. Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought it at auction...
Died, John Armstrong Chaloner (Chanler), 72, eccentric brother of seven rich descendants of Peter Stuyvesant and John Jacob Astor-the late Artist Robert Armstrong ("Sheriff Bob"), onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York Lewis Stuyvesant, onetime Congressman William Astor, Winthrop Astor Chanler, Mrs. John Jay Chapman, Mrs. Richard Aldrich, Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet; of cancer; in Charlottesville, Va. Because of business affairs and his marriage to author Amelie Rives (now Princess Troubetzkoy), Brother John quarreled with his family, three of whom got him committed to Bloomingdale Hospital in 1897. He escaped to Virginia, had himself declared sane by the courts...
...first report (six sentences from Cat Cay, Bahamas) was sent after he had transferred from the Farragut to Vincent Astor's Nourmahal aboard which were all the President's old socialite fishing cronies. It stated that the Governor of the Bahamas, Sir Bede Clifford and his lady, and the Duke of Kent and his lady had formally called upon President Roosevelt aboard the Nourmahal...