Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Al Smith, it was believed, had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, to nominate him?a sort of return compliment, since Governor Smith seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for Vice President in 1920. For a seconder of his nomination, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister of Lady Astor, was suggested...
...which is more than one-sixth of the $15,000,000 necessary to complete St. John's, Manhattan. Biggest givers were: $250,000 from the Stuyvesants (A. Van Home, Miss Catharine E.S., and Miss Anne W.); $100,000 or more from Edward F. Albee (theatres), Vincent Astor (real estate), Arthur Curtiss James* (railroads and banks), F. A. Juilliard (finance), Frank A. Munsey (groceries and newspapers), Dr. and Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice (explorers), J.P. Morgan...
This arrangement was not at all pleasing to the Astor group which had planned to build office and other business buildings right up Madison Ave. Thus the Astor's century-old instinct for profitable realty development collided with Mr. Morgan's fondness for his old-fashioned home and his determination not to live at the bottom of a lofty canyon inhabited by sales-managers, advertising-agents, and other insensitive neighbors. For the past ten years the two parties have fenced and litigated incessantly over the question...
...Astor: "I am most peaceful. I want any amount of peace. I am a monument of peace. Honorable gentlemen opposite hurl insults at my head, and do I care? Not in the least...
Prohibition will be debated at Sheffield and Oxford. At Oxford, the debate will be followed by speeches from G. K. Chesterton, champion British bibulophile, and by Lady Astor, so-called "British Bryan...