Word: astors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his engagement with Socialite Eileen Gillespie was broken, young John Jacob Astor III chose the abandoned wedding-day to start a world-junket with three former schoolmates. By last week he had arrived in Shanghai, where he spent most of his time staring moodily out of the window in his room. Badgered by reporters young Astor blurted out that he was "trying to forget," added: "I don't like to discuss it. What more can I say?" Left alone, he turned again to the window...
Died. William Astor Chanler, 66. socialite, expeditionist, politician, author, brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John Armstrong Chaloner and the late Artist Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler, great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor; in Mentone, France. A waterfall in British East Africa, some varieties of reptiles, insects and an antelope species bear his name...
Nancy Lorraine Joan Blendell Kent Adolphe Menjou Jerry Ford Dick Powell Arline Dale Mary Astor George Ellerbee Guy Kibbee Will Edwin Frank McHugh...
...Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts an elusive hare when he points out that banksters are no new phenomenon. In 1819 the combined "borrowings" of directors and employes of the City Bank of Baltimore exceeded the entire capital of the bank by $100,000. John Jacob Astor used $5,000,000 of Government money for 20 years, paid no interest. When the Union Bank of Florida failed (1837) it had $76 in foreign banknotes to cover more than $100,000 in deposits and more than twice as much circulating paper...
...Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next day, faced with similar requests from Chicago socialites, Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred...