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...largest absolute partition sale of city real-estate lots in the history of the country": a four-day, 1918 auction of the 1,500 Bronx lots that made up the old Ogden Estate. Other famous-name estates partitioned by Day: Van Cortlandt, Astor, Harkness, Gould, Schwab, Doherty, Juilliard, James Gordon Bennett...
Vainly did effervescent Lady Astor seek to settle things. Why not, she asked, let the House vote on teachers' pay without involving the question of confidence in the Government? Other members echoed her plea. But Minister Butler, pale and impatient, roughly retorted: "Childish. ... I am here to give a lead. ... I must put myself and the Government in the hands of the House...
...Lady Astor: Will you look at some of these publications (cries of 'No, No!') and will you bear one thing in mind-whether they are good for winning the war or whether they are detrimental...
Bawdy laughter from the House. Ladylike silence from Lady Astor...
...Nancy Astor, the U.S. Army is still "Our Army...