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Said Lady Nancy Langhorne Aston "I never even let my husband know what money I have. It is a great distress to me that my bankers should know. ... I like to have a little in my heart that nobody knows about." Few days later Lady Astor, a native Virginian, allowed the Press to learn that she had telephoned from London a pledge of $200 to the Community Chest Fund of Richmond...
...Suspected Lady Astor (who had hoped for a Cabinet post) of pique when she asked the Prime Minister: "Is no woman to be included in the National Government...
...McLean was a Miss Rose Douras Van Cleve, widely identified by the U. S. Press as a sister of Marion Davies. Other Riga divorce-getters, di-vorce-seekers: Impresario Max Reinhardt, German Novelist Jakob Wassermann, Composer Eugen d'Albert. Princess Alice Muriel (daughter of the late John Jacob Astor) Obolensky...
Returning to the U. S. after 18 years' absence, Mrs. Maurice Bennett ("Lefty") Flynn, youngest sister Norah of Lady (Nancy Langhorne) Astor, found she might have to wait four years for papers of U. S. citizenship, which she lost when she married Major Paul Phipps in 1909. Said she: "Fancy being born in Virginia and having to wait that long...
...have been the driving force in the I. M. M.-Roosevelt combination. Of these the central figure is Kermit Roosevelt, diffident, able son of the late great Theodore. To his success with a small jute-carrying line was added the vast wealth of that solemn yacht-lover, Vincent Astor, who describes himself as "head of the Astor family in the U. S." Roosevelt ambition plus Astor money plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control of I. M. M. of which young Mr. Franklin's father remains titular head. That the young men are determined...