Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Rosetta Duncan, elder Duncan Sister; to William Beri, cinema technical expert. Vivian Duncan, younger Duncan Sister, was rumored also engaged-possibly to Nils Astor, Scandinavian cinemactor. The sisters acted in Topsy and Eva, (TIME, Jan. 5. 1925); have long had a pact requiring a double wedding...
Died. James Roosevelt Roosevelt, 73, philanthropist, half-brother of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt; father-in-law of present Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson; onetime brother-in-law of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor; of asthma; at his estate, Red House, near Hyde Park...
...Lady Astor bore a son to her first husband, Robert Gould Shaw; has borne four sons and one daughter to her second husband, Viscount Astor...
...Roused from this torpor when Lady Nancy Astor, famed "First Woman M. P.", defended vigorously a bill designed to prevent the Government from discharging women civil employes as soon as they marry. Said Lady Astor...
...Virginia venture, among them Governors Byrd of Virginia and Ritchie of Maryland, Presidents Butler of Columbia University and Chase of the University of North Carolina, Senators Couzens of Michigan and Glass of Virginia, Editors Freeman of the Richmond News-Leader and Fishburne of the Roanoke Times; and Viscountess Astor, British M. P., vivacious daughter of the old Virginia aristocracy...