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...late Viscount William Waldorf Astor? (1848-1919) a rebate of $10,000,000 in Federal inheritance taxes, together with $6,000,000 in interest accrued since 1922. The re-fund will be divided between Viscount William Waldorf Astor II, 52 (eldest son), husband of Lady Astor, and John Jacob Astor, chairman of the Times Publishing Co. (London...
...Great-grandson of Fur Dealer John Jacob Astor, the original founder of the Astor fortune. As a young man he was a member of the New York State legislature (1877-81). Afterward he served as U. S. Minister to Italy for three years, published two romances, Valentine, Sjorza. In 1899 he became a naturalized British citizen. He was created a peer in 1916, a viscount...
Next day Hoiriis & Hillig flew back to Denmark for a reception at the pilot's birthplace, Braband. But the important city of Aarhus only three miles away, capital of the county, disdained to take official notice of their visit. The flight, said Burgomaster Jacob Jensen, was "haphazard luck." Had the flyers not named Copenhagen as their destination? And had they not floundered about over Spain and France before getting their bearings? So what if they had flown across the Atlantic Ocean safely? Many another has done the same. That is nothing nowadays...
...Hardtner, just across the Kansas line, lived two farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right...
...State was by no means done with the Bank of U. S. failure. Next day diminutive Isidor Jacob Kresel, the bank's counsel, pleaded not guilty to six indictments charging him with the same set of crimes which resulted in the Marcus-Singer conviction. Lawyer Kresel, under Referee Samuel Seabury, had been actively prosecuting the investigation of the Magistrates' Courts in Manhattan (see p. 12) when the Bank of U. S. failed, causing his retirement from public service. From a sick bed, with a fever of 104°, he appeared last winter before the Grand Jury, swore that...