According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

By February 1945 David Astor had invited Orwell to become a war correspondent for the Observer.

David Astor was instrumental in arranging a place for Orwell on Jura.

Orwell's wedding took place in the hospital room on 13 October 1949, with David Astor as best man.

David Astor lived in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, and negotiated with the vicar for Orwell to be interred in All Saints ' Churchyard there, although he had no connection with the village.

David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".

This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.

* March 5 – David Astor, British newspaper publisher ( d. 2001 )

In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, David Thompson and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down the Columbia to Fort Astoria.

# Francis David Langhorne Astor ( 1912 – 2001 )

Oak Hall had notable guests, such as David Niven, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Lady Nancy Astor, and Mrs. George C. Marshall.

* David Astor ( 1948 – 1975 )

* David Astor and The Observer by Richard Cockett.

Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs, and almost the entire Astor family.

* 7 – David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.

The group sued Observer editor David Astor over the report, in a case marked by discussion of an armed police raid of the building in which bullets were found.

Together with David Astor and Richard Rees, Orwell's literary executor, she established the George Orwell Archive at University College London, which opened in 1960.

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In 1980, just before the book was published, a friend of Crick's, David Astor, agreed to match the grant.

###### William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor ( born 1951 ) ( from 2nd marriage ), step-father to Samantha Cameron, the wife of Prime Minister David Cameron MP and-Conservative Party MP for Witney

Francis David Langhorne Astor ( 1912 – 2001 )

When his friend David Lloyd George became prime minister and formed a new coalition government, Astor became his parliamentary private secretary.

* 1993 – Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter ( b. 1912 )

* 1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist ( d. 2000 )

* 1912 – Mack David, American songwriter ( d. 1993 )

Pickford made her last Biograph picture, The New York Hat, in late 1912 and returned to Broadway in the David Belasco production of A Good Little Devil.

* 1912 – David Packard, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard ( d. 1996 )

** David Packard, American engineer ( b. 1912 )

According to David Ownby, religion has, since 1912, been defined to refer to " world-historical faiths " that have " well-developed institutions, clergy, and textual traditions "— namely, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism.

Robert W. Glover, David Delano Glover's brother and a Missionary Baptist pastor served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature ( 1905 – 1912 ) from Sheridan.

*( Francis ) David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 8th Earl of March ( 1912 – 2008 )

* David Jenkins ( librarian ) ( 1912 – 2002 ), Welsh librarian

* Mack David ( 1912 – 1993 ), composer

Senior Rabbis have included: Israel Mattuck ( from 1912 ), Leslie Edgar ( initially as assistant-1931 ), John D. Rayner ( initially as assistant 1957 ), David Goldberg ( 1989 ), Alexandra Wright ( 2004 )

A David Eyre's pancake is a variation on the German pancake named for the American writer and editor David W. Eyre ( 1912 – 2008 ).

London: David Nutt, 1912.

David Ross Brower ( July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000 ) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth ( 1969 ), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute ( 1982 ), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.

* David M. De Witt ( 1837 – 1912 ), American politician

* Irwin's Bakery was established in 1912 by William David Irwin, grandfather of the existing joint managing directors, as a grocery retailer.

* March 26 – David Packard ( b. 1912 ), engineer.

In 1912, George David Birkhoff introduced the chromatic polynomial to study the coloring problems, which was generalised to the Tutte polynomial by Tutte, important structures in algebraic graph theory.

On April 30, 1912, in New York, Carl Laemmle of IMP, Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company, William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company, David Horsley of Nestor Film Company and Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company merged their studios and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated.

Francis David Langhorne Astor CH ( 5 March 1912 – 7 December 2001 ) was an English newspaper publisher and member of the Astor family.