Word: astors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Franklin Roosevelt did not let a critical Congressional situation keep him from going fishing off Florida. Last week he had another fishing appointment aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal but failed to depart as scheduled. His old friend, intimate adviser and No. 1 secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, lay critically ill in his bedroom on the northwest corner of the White House's second floor. The 64-year-old ex-newshawk was being kept alive by oxygen and drugs in spite of heart disease, pleurisy and asthma. "Critical," "grave," "very critical," "steadily failing strength" told the story...
...clock one morning John Jacob Astor III went furtively to work as assistant to the assistant marine superintendent of the International Mercantile Marine Co. in Manhattan. For three days he clerked quietly. Then newshawks discovered him, pestered until he glumly gave an interview. "I was," said he, "very glad to get this job." Whether his half-brother Vincent Astor, vice president and part owner of the company, was also glad, he did not know. He was working eight hours a day, six days a week, getting $25. He found that the job had to do with hiring and firing crews...
...expect to be promoted?" he was asked. Clerk Astor flipped a half dollar uneasily, glanced at the company pressagent, hazarded: "It is every young man's ambition to rise...
...never been a playboy," complained Clerk Astor. Turning to the pressagent, "Have I been a playboy...
...black-robed rabbi glanced down at the casket covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori, many & many another. As the organ's whisper floated away, the rabbi said...