Word: astors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt saved out an hour for Author Emil Ludwig who is going to write his biography (TIME, June 28), another for Lady Astor. Emerging afterwards she interviewed herself...
...What I think of the American press would never do to print. . . . I can see your headlines now. 'Lady Astor Slams America.' . . . But don't say 'British Peeress Came Back to Criticize'-because 't aint true. . . . What did I talk to the President about? All sorts of things. I knew him since he was a little boy. I was telling him how remarkable it was for a man so hated to be so free from hate. Don't you think he's hated? You haven't been where...
John Jacob Astor '88, Francis Davis Millet '69, and Harry Elkins Widener '07 reported among victims of Titanic disaster...
Most excited betters had put their money on Perifox (son of Gallant Fox), which William Woodward hoped would prove the second U. S.-bred horse to win the Derby, or Lord Astor's Cash Book or the French colt Le Ksar. Still confident was the round, brown Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, that this year his one entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been...
...uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild. At the Astor he proposed that money be raised to start a promotion bureau to bring the Theatre and its customers closer together and, incidentally, to fight legislation unfriendly to the stage...