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Most of last month Vincent Astor and Raymond Moley shuttled between Hyde Park and Manhattan. To the President, his richest friend and his ablest adviser brought word that Business was developing a bad case of nerves at the New Deal's uncertainties. Back in town Editor Moley wrote inspired reassurances in Today and Mr. Astor closeted himself with one tycoon after another to relate how things were going to come out all right in the end. The biggest news that Mr. Astor brought back from the throne room was that President Roosevelt was going to make Bernard Mannes ("Bernie...
President Roosevelt, who can still find time to enjoy the pleasures and pastimes of the rich, last week boarded Vincent Astor's yacht Nourmahal at Poughkeepsie, steamed down the Hudson and up Long Island Sound to Newport. There, in the midst of a flotilla of pleasure craft valued at a billion dollars, the President planned to remain four days to witness the America's Cup races between British Challenger Endeavour and U. S. Defender Rainbow...
...start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled the course when Vincent Astor's Nourmahal with President Roosevelt aboard slid up to the line, received side-boys from Coast Guard and Navy craft. An able and enthusiastic sailor, the President watched the proceedings closely from the Nourmahal's deck, exercised his prerogative as commander-in-chief of the Navy half way through...
Married. Mrs. Livingston French, mother-in-law of John Jacob Astor III; and James Lenox Banks Jr., Manhattan attorney; in Manhattan...
John Jacob Astor III & wife got as far as Seattle on their month's honeymoon in the Pacific Northwest, secluded themselves in a hotel for two days, hitched their private car to an Eastbound express sped back to New York. Explained young Mr Astor, surrounded by 46 detectives: "We couldn't afford the car any longer...