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Nancy Lady Astor turned her tart Virginia tongue last week upon Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley, gilded son of the Queen's Bedchamber Woman, who fortnight ago confessed to the House of Commons the failure of the National Government's attempt to reform Britain's wasteful "Dole" (TIME, Feb. 18). Said the Noble Lady: "Government should have stood by their unemployment scheme and corrected its defects without so much everlasting apologizing to the Labor Opposition! It was all right for the Labor Minister to make his statement in this House, but it was not necessary...
...Lady Astor continued to be comforted by the stolid Toryism of the House of Chamberlain, mere second-generation though it is. Sir Austen Chamberlain, he of the affrighting icy monocle, grows dim; but even without a monocle his brother Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, remains perhaps the world's most formidable Tory. Last week Mr. Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons, and Labor in particular, with such withering conservative rebuke that even when he referred to Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed," no M. P. ventured the impertinence of interrupting to observe that Government...
Fresh from a visit to his pretty, Italian first wife Tosca, Enzo Fiermonte. occasional prizefighter, taxied up to a Naples Hotel, hastened in to calm his tearful wife, Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, widow of John Jacob Astor II, mother of John Jacob Astor III. Hotel-men, eavesdropping, heard sounds of a quarrel. After an hour, handsome, husky Fisticuffer Fiermonte, whose passport had been taken by the police, left to spend the night with his first wife's brother. Next morning he was off to Rome on the third lap of a wife-to-wife shuttling trip which...
...Lady Astor...
...indicating an income of some $300,000, a capital of some $6,000,000. In the same year John D. Rockefeller Jr. paid $7,400,000, and George Fisher Baker and his son each paid more than $600,000. But Mr. Andrus' tax was not dwarfed by Vincent Astor's $285,000 and it far outstripped William Randolph Hearst...