Word: astors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-elect Roosevelt, with some 60 candidates to pick from, announced that he would not announce his Cabinet until after his return from a cruise aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal about mid-February. An unexpected guest on that cruise, it developed last week, would be Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President, fifth cousin of the President-elect. Thus was seen a patch-up between the Republican and Democratic branches of the Roosevelt family. An ardent Hooverite, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth wrote a note of congratulation to fifth Cousin Franklin shortly after his election. Last week Mrs. Longworth...
...those days New York City's Society was the private hobby of Mrs. William Astor. The Vanderbilts were unassuming folk whose father, the old Commodore, had helped push the nation's frontier into the Pacific Ocean. The Vanderbilts were rich in money but Mrs. Astor's jewel was her master of ceremonies, Ward McAllister, who limited the number of Manhattan's citizens who "wouldn't make it uncomfortable in a ballroom for others...
...vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt in the militancy of her agitation for woman's suffrage. And just as she had built her palaces, she gave $100,600 for the National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington's B Street...
Last week President-elect Roosevelt was back at his home-away-from-home, Warm Springs, Ga. There he was to pick his Cabinet before going off on Vincent Astor's Nourmahal for a fishing trip in Florida waters. The shank of February was to be spent either at Hyde Park or in the Capital itself at the Townsend home on Massachusetts Avenue. After that-the Inaugural, plans for which had grown so lavish last week that it was going to take General Pershing to lead the parade...
...Lady Astor: Oh, he doesn't know anything about debts...