Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Baldwin announced in the House that the Government is prepared to grant facilities to Lady Astor's bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to persons under 18 years of age if it fails to pass through the remaining stages in the time allotted to private members' bills...
...Philipson (Mabel Russell), newly elected Conservative member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, took her seat in the House. A Labor member is said to have shouted: "Cheer up, Nancy!" to Lady Astor...
...done more. He has clothed his conception in dramatic form and provided dramatis personae to act the piece. Cecil Rhodes who lured young Americans to England for propaganda purposes is the chief villain, supported in the minor roles by Andrew Carnegie, Lord Northcliffe, Sir Gilbert Parker, Lady Astor, Elihu Root, Owen Wister, Dr. Neilson of Smith, the Sulgrave Institute, the English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names of all American citizens of British ancestry...
Slightly over half a century ago Labor in England held a precarious seat in the Commons; today Labor members are dined by Lady Astor and the royal family, and the party, acting upon a definite program, wields the balance of power in English politics. This development in England has been paralleled elsewhere, but as yet there has been no real solution of labor problems...
Miss Florence Leeds: "I exclaimed to reporters in Atlantic City: 'Let Mr. Stillman meet me on the steps of the Astor Public Library at 42d Street and Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) and we will tell our stories to the multitude. Then the world will see which is telling the truth...