Word: astors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University fencing team will meet the New York University swordsmen this evening at the Hotel Astor in New York City at 8.30 o'clock. Again, tomorrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the team will be entered in a match with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia...
...Vincent Astor, Manhattan realtor and apple grower, won a prize for growing and packing the fruit on his Rhinecliff estate, at the Poughkeepsie Exhibition of the New York State Horticultural Society...
Viscountess Astor, American-born British feminist, gave the Plymouth Museum the dress she wore as the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons...
...Author. Author James Joyce celebrated his 48th birthday last fortnight in Paris. To him came a congratulatory telegram signed by his great & good friends Author James Stephens, Lord & Lady Astor, Playwright George Bernard Shaw. After the birthday dinner Joyce went to the Opera, heard Tenor John Sullivan sing William Tell. Passionately fond of operagoing, Author Joyce always sits in the front...
...Roosevelt Line, to which Mr. Astor has turned his money and his attention, operates 24 motor ships between U. S. points on the Atlantic and Australia, India, and the Far East. It is important but not dominant in the field of American shipping. Both the Dollar and the United States lines surpass it in tonnage and revenue. But the Roosevelt Line is rapidly developing into a competitor to be reckoned with by the two older giants. Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore the Great, organized the Roosevelt Line in 1920 to operate a fleet of ships to India for the Shipping...