Word: astors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow's railway station fortnight ago to welcome a friend of Lenin, a prime voice of British Socialism. The train pulled in; a band struck up "The Internationale." The Muscovites roared: "Hail Bernard Shaw!" Troops swung into protecting lines down which Mr. Shaw marched, accompanied by Lady Astor and a group of other British notables including her meek husband...
...great period of the Selznick legend began then. He formed other companies for other stars and when Adolph Zukor did the same for Mary Pickford, he wrote Mary Pickford a letter telling her to congratulate Zukor for copying his idea. He held the first lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE...
...make music a part of life again, the way it used to be in past centuries. But we've had to be secretive about it. The way things are, it seems a bit silly. . . ." To perform together privately every fortnight will meet Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. William Vincent Astor (pianists), Mrs. Leland Harrison (wife of the Tariff Commission's international relations division head), Mrs. Arthur Woods (wife of the resigned Director of President Hoover's Unemployment Relief) and Mrs. L. Havemeyer Butt (singers). Asked if husbands approved, Mrs. Mitchell said: "One night I had a party for Count...
...estate of the late Viscount William Waldorf Astor? (1848-1919) a rebate of $10,000,000 in Federal inheritance taxes, together with $6,000,000 in interest accrued since 1922. The re-fund will be divided between Viscount William Waldorf Astor II, 52 (eldest son), husband of Lady Astor, and John Jacob Astor, chairman of the Times Publishing Co. (London...
...Great-grandson of Fur Dealer John Jacob Astor, the original founder of the Astor fortune. As a young man he was a member of the New York State legislature (1877-81). Afterward he served as U. S. Minister to Italy for three years, published two romances, Valentine, Sjorza. In 1899 he became a naturalized British citizen. He was created a peer in 1916, a viscount...