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 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.

* David Astor ( 1912 – 2001 ), British newspaper publisher

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.

David Astor, the Hon.

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.

* 1948 – David Gemmell.

* 1948 – David Ingram, American musician, songwriter, and arranger ( AnExchange and Love Song ) ( d. 2005 )

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!

In the last 50 years David has enjoyed a revival in popular favor and in 1948 his two-hundredth birthday was celebrated with an exhibition at the Musée de l ' Orangerie in Paris and at Versailles showing his life's works.

* Dowd, David, Pageant-Master of the Republic, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, ( 1948 )

The state of war between both countries which dated back from the 1948 Arab – Israeli War ended in 1979 with the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty a year after the Camp David Accords.

Debuting in June 1948, the show was broadcast from CBS Studio 50, at 1697 Broadway ( at 53rd Street ) in New York City, which in 1967 was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater ( and is now the home of the Late Show with David Letterman ).

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

* 1948 – Arab – Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.

* 1948 – David Heineman, American politician, 39th governor of Nebraska

* 1948 – David Eisenhower, American author and professor

* 1948 David Low

* 1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host

A book by David Embury published in 1948 provides a slight variation:

" Fire Time " gives the detailed history of a prolonged escalating conflict on a planet colonized simultaneously by humans who call it Mundomar and the nonhuman Naqsans who call it Tseyakka: The historical film of the human leader Sigurdsson declaring the independent republic of Eleutheria in the midst of war is clearly reminiscent of David Ben-Gurion declaring Israel's independence in 1948 ; in a later war, the Eleutherians conquer the Naqsan continent of G ' yaaru, rename it Sigurdssonia and establish settlements in it.

David Niven said she had been " quite, quite mad "; and in his diary Noël Coward expressed surprise that " things had been bad and getting worse since 1948 or thereabouts.

David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence from the United Kingdom on May 14, 1948

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough has written that Humphrey probably did more to get Truman elected in 1948 than anyone other than Truman himself.

Dave Mattacks ( born David James Mattacks, 13 March 1948, Edgware, Middlesex, England ) is a rock and folk drummer.

* Pietrusza, David 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America, Union Square Press, 2011.

* Pietrusza, David 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America, Union Square Press, 2011.