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...prepared to deliver the Administration's Sunday punch at Joe McCarthy. Scowling grimly into the microphone, he launched into a 30-minute speech before 12,000 delegates to the 52nd national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, meeting in Manhattan's Astor Hotel...
Shirt Sleeves. Behind a police motorcycle escort, he rolled up to the Astor the next afternoon, just 20 minutes behind schedule. There was a great cheer as he strode to the platform of the Astor ballroom and flung a big brown briefcase beside the rostrum. Grinning broadly, Joe plunged extemporaneously into an hour and a quarter's attack on Communism in Government, broken only momentarily at the halfway mark when he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves...
Divorced. By the Honorable Francis David Langhorne Astor, 39, editor of London's sedate Observer, second son of Virginia-born Lady Astor: Melanie Hausser Astor, after six years of marriage, one daughter; in London...
...Honorable Gent. In a liquor-licensing debate, Lady Astor got A.P.'s dander up by referring to him as "the playboy of the drink world." Snapped he: "A regular course of narcotics would be extremely good for the noble lady and would make her less restive." As usual, she had the last word: "The noble lady will be restive in this House long after the honorable gent...
...born Weinberg started his career in 1910 by posing as a naval attaché in the Serbian embassy in Washington. As a U.S. consul in Morocco, he was received in New York harbor by U.S. fleet units. Once his Brooklyn accent betrayed him at a banquet at the Hotel Astor, where he was posing as the U.S. consul general from Rumania. He was exposed, but managed to stay out of jail. In 1921, he got into the White House by posing as a "U.S. protocol representative," introduced Afghanistan's Princess Fatima to President Warren G. Harding. In 1926, claiming...