Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome. Chairman Grover Whalen of the Mayor's Committee of Welcome and Mrs. Vincent Astor, personal representative of Mayor Walker of New York, boarded the Leviathan at quarantine from the municipal steamer Macon and welcomed Queen Marie in the name of the city. Followed J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, on a revenue cutter to extend the President's greetings. A third delegation of "personal friends of Queen Marie," likewise on the cutter, included Judge ("U. S. Steel") Gary and Samuel ("Sam") Hill of Seattle, Wash., potent railroader, who extended to Queen Marie the invitation to dedicate...
...press in general displayed a friendly spirit of welcome, gave publicity to a remark made by Lady Astor as she sailed for England last week: "There is no woman in all Europe who has a better War record than Queen Marie. Do you know she went into leprous buildings where all others were afraid to go and where the dead were piled high and people were dying of disease...
Married. Mrs. Irene Gibson Post, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson and niece of Viscountess Astor; to John J. Emery of Cincinnati; at Dark Harbor, Me. Mrs. Post divorced her husband, George B. Post, last March in Paris...
...fronts and Fifth Avenue chateaux, but Chicago had only its sprawling gingerbread Gothic and its Prairie Avenue. Sooty railroads, industry, and worst of all, the "black belt" began to creep up to the gingerbread creations. Society surrendered. It began an exodus to the North Side -to Lake Shore Drive, Astor Street, Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. Not so, Julius Rosenwald-he would stand by the South Side. He did not object to the Negroes; he was their friend; he had given millions for their advancement. Mr. Rosenwald is no idle dreamer. He is a profoundly respected business man (Sears, Roebuck...
...Britisher in a blue suit and a wide-brimmed panama hat tore screaming along the ship's rail- leapt, climbed, jostled dignified bankers, evaded pursuit. "Mon-key!" "Monkey!" screamed passengers. "MONKEY!" The Hon. John Jacob Astor ran to his mother, clambered into her lap. He is aged seven. Last week photographers snapped busily Lady Nancy Astor, onetime Virginia beauty, first woman member of the British Parliament, here on her second U. S. visit. She was "traveling incognito," she said, looking admiringly at her 17-year-old Phyllis, who did look well. Michael, aged ten, shuffled against the Hon. John...