Word: astors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1931, when Stalin was ruthlessly liquidating the kulaks in his drive to collectivize the land, he gave one of his rare interviews to outsiders. His guests were George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor. As always, Nancy Astor was forthright : "When are you going to stop killing people?" she asked Stalin...
Divorced. By William Waldorf Astor, 45, the third Viscount Astor (eldest son of Nancy and the late Viscount Astor) and Tory member of Parliament: Sarah Norton Astor, 32, daughter of Lord Grantley, British movie magnate; after eight years of marriage, one son; in London...
...Recently I attended a luncheon meeting of newspaper and magazine publishers in honor of Colonel John Jacob Astor, chairman of the London Times. Colonel Astor had come to ask for help in finding the next of kin of U.S. servicemen killed in Britain, or in operations based on Britain, during World War II. The Times, he explained, wants to give these near relatives a book it has just published, Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead...
When the caterwauling was over, the result was a clear victory for towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Tory John Hall, who got 350 more votes than Astor did in 1951. It was a heartening vote of confidence in Churchill's government, which was one year old last week...
...honor of Pocahontas. British and American flags hung side by side in the chancel last week, and another old Virginian, Lady Astor, helped to inaugurate it as "a symbolic shrine of Anglo-American relations...