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Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...
...Cosden's next spring landed him, unshod and unshirted, a lamb in Wall Street. "The Cedars" went to Vincent Astor for a substantial consideration, the Palm Beach house to Mrs. Horace Dodge...
Then, as he approached the U. S. for the first time, his coming was heralded by a super-Shavianism. In the New York Times, blind, deaf, gentle Helen Keller told how, when she once met him and admiringly addressed him in England at Lady Astor's, he snapped: "All Americans are blind and deaf-and dumb!" (TIME, March...
Talk that President Roosevelt's slim friend Vincent Astor would be made Assistant Secretary of the Navy was very natural. The master of the glossy white yacht Nourmahal, on which the President-elect cruised in February, used to be Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. He donated at least $25,000 to the Roosevelt campaign. But there is a Navy tradition about having Roosevelts for Assistant Secretary...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...