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...President set March 24 as the date of his departure for what has become his annual spring fishing trip in Florida waters with Vincent Astor on the Nourmahal. Before sailing from Miami he is scheduled to meet the honeymooning Duke & Duchess of Kent...
...Empire's superior court of appeal, squelched the lengthy efforts of the Crown to squeeze further income tax payments out of Hon. William Waldorf Astor, shy young son and heir of bold Nancy Astor's mild Viscount. On. Nov. 13, 1929 Mr. Astor transferred stocks and shares to a U. S. trustee, hoping thus to escape taxation of the income by Britain...
Delivering judgment last week, Life Peer Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, stressed the essential point that Scion Astor, in setting up his U. S. trust, "reserved the right to revoke the trust wholly or in part during his life." Hereafter Heir Astor will pay British income tax only on that part of his U. S. income which is brought into Great Britain...
...Heir Astor, so shy that he often swallows twice before answering a simple question, was sent by the League of Nations' cowardly Lytton Commission to investigate Northern Manchuria when they deemed it too dangerous to go themselves (TiME, May 30, 1932). Next year, stopping in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Astor remarked: "When my friends try to telephone me and ask for Waldorf Astor the operators say, 'Oh, yeah?' I suppose it is rather like calling up the Aquarium and asking for Mr. Fish...
Seeking Divorce. "Princess" Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, granddaughter and heiress ($20,000,000) of the late F. W. Woolworth; from "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31, divorced husband of Louise Astor Van Alen. Married in 1933, they were often separated, often reported about to divorce. In London last week, whence she was about to sail for the U. S. to file suit in Reno, "Princess" Mdivani said: "We agreed to part only legally. . . . Alec to me is one of the finest men I have ever known. . . . No man could be nobler...