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...shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other touch of U. S. swank was needed, the Reids were sent to the coronation of Edward VII. In 1905 President Roosevelt made Whitelaw Reid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, first-ranking U. S. diplomatic post. In London the Reids were phenomenally popular and achieved a social prestige never before or since equalled by Americans...
...Constitution forbids U. S. officeholders accepting foreign titles. But to permit General Pershing a knighthood by George V, Congress passed an act allowing all U. S. warriors to accept swank titles of Allied Powers...
Astor. The swank thing was done by the U. S. House of Astor (originally German) a generation...
William Waldorf Astor (born in New York City) moved to England in 1890, became naturalized in 1899, was created Baron Astor in 1916, Viscount Astor a year later, died in 1919. His son, the present Waldorf Viscount Astor, last week did the most un-swank thing possible, closed his magnificent Thames-side mansion "Cliveden" (where Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford were presented to George V and Queen Mary...
...Swank Spanish airmen have been a corps d'elite, have strutted in natty green uniforms, are now reduced to mere khaki...