Ultimately, the scandals caused no harm to Astor's career, which was actually revitalized because of the custody fight and the huge amount of publicity it generated ; Dodsworth ( 1936 ), with Walter Huston, was released to rave reviews, and the public's acceptance assured the studios that she was still a viable commercial property.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of, all of it land ( this measurement seems to exclude Astor's network of canals, which extends over in length, providing river access for many of its residents.

Later in 1811, on the same expedition, he finished his survey of the entire Columbia, arriving at a partially constructed Fort Astoria just two months after the departure of John Jacob Astor's ill-fated Tonquin.

The fort was supplied by ships from the Pacific and by the overland York Factory Express trade route, which evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria, founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

John Jacob Astor's ancestors were Waldensian refugees from Savoy, and Astor remained a member of the Reformed church throughout his life.

Astor's fur trading ventures were again disrupted when the British captured his trading posts during the War of 1812.

Even more damaging to Astor's campaign were her well-known hostility to alcohol consumption and her ignorance of current political issues.

Among Astor's early political friends were the first female candidates to follow her to Parliament, including members of the other parties.

Lady Astor's accomplishments in the House of Commons were relatively minor.

Mrs. Astor's social groups were dominated by strong-willed aristocratic females.

The Vanderbilts were subsequently invited to Mrs. Astor's annual ball, a formal acknowledgement of their full acceptance into the upper echelon of New York society.

Astor's policies were passionate about the plight of black Africans and the violation of human rights.

Astor's parents had married on September 9, 1911 and were returning home aboard the Titanic after about three months of honeymooning in Egypt and Europe.

Astor's parents were not Theosophists, though the family was friendly with both Marie Hotchener and her husband Harry, both prominent TS members.

During World War I, she was posted at Cliveden, Lady Astor's estate, and became matron of the Moore Barracks Hospital in Shorncliffe where thousands of Canadian soldiers were treated.

For books, $ 120, 000 was allocated, and trustees were to be Washington Irving, William B. Astor, Daniel Lord, Jr., James G. King, Joseph G. Cogswell, Fitz-Greene Halleck ( a poet in Astor's service since 1832 ), Henry Brevoort, Jr., Samuel B. Ruggles, Samuel Ward, Jr., and the Mayor of New York City and the Chancellor of New York State, ex officio.

The 35-year-old ( her actual, biological, age most likely, at that time would have been 50-years-old ; she was known to intimates, included among them were several Grande-dames, hailing from the former Mrs. Astor's New York and Newport, Rhode Island fabled 400-High Society.

:" In 1811, the overland party of Mr. Astor's expedition, under the command of Mr. Wilson P. Hunt, of Trenton, New Jersey, although numbering sixty well armed men, found the Indians so very troublesome in the country of the Yellowstone River, that the party of seven persons who left Astoria toward the end of June, 1812, considering it dangerous to pass again by the route of 1811, turned toward the southeast as soon as they had crossed the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and, after several days ' journey, came through the celebrated ' South Pass ' in the month of November, 1812.

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

Astor's family owned Scottish estates in the area and a fellow Old Etonian Robert Fletcher had a property on the island.

Astor's business rebounded in 1817 after the U. S. Congress passed a protectionist law that barred foreign traders from U. S. territories.

* 1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board.

After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

* September 8 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board.

After a 6-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

Astor's beliefs and activities as a Christian Scientist would become one of the most consistent elements of her life.

Astor's conversion was gradual and was influenced by a number of factors.

Lady Astor's devotion to Christian Science was more intense than orthodox, and she sent some practitioners away for disagreeing with her.

Several elements of Lady Astor's life to this point influenced her first campaign, but the main reason she became a candidate in the first place was her husband's situation.

Astor's Parliamentary career was the most public phase of her life, making her an object of both love and hatred.

These minimum costs may come to $1 per month, more or less, for residential and small commercial customers, although they are substantially higher for large industrial users, who require more costly connections and metering devices.

Transportation bottlenecks on rivers and lack of rail connections are serious hindrances to commercial exploitation.

The English-speaking regions of Canada and the Caribbean are caught between historical connections with the UK and the Commonwealth, and geographical and economic connections with the U. S. In some things, and more formally, they tend to follow British standards, whereas in others, especially commercial, they follow the U. S. standard.

Funerary evidence indicates that the pagan practice of cremation ceased relatively early and jewellery recovered from graves has affinities with Rhenish styles from the Continent, perhaps suggesting close commercial connections with Francia.

RTTY has declined in commercial popularity as faster, more reliable alternative data modes have become available, using satellite or other connections.

Usually the international ferry connections are operated by commercial companies without support or contracts with any government to operate them.

It serves primarily as an Air National Guard base and for general aviation, but commercial airlines fly to regional connections to Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Charlotte, and Memphis.

Besides monthly-paid Internet connections ( either flat rate or with a number of free minutes ), in Argentina there are also a number of Internet service providers that have commercial agreements with the telephone companies for charging a slightly higher communication rate to the user for that communication, though without any monthly fixed fee.

They brought with them commercial experience and connections, capital and a spirit of enterprise.

These French entrepreneurs were attracted to the area because of its large flatlands and came with enough capital, slaves, and commercial connections to make a significant impact in Ponce's sugar cane production.

But Brown's defeat by Turton, one of the company's chief local business rivals, marked the decline of old British enterprises in relation to the rising Creole entrepreneurs with their United States commercial connections.

Funabashi is a regional commercial center and, due to its numerous train connections, a bedroom community for nearby Chiba and Tokyo.

ISBN 973-651-596-6 This book contains historical background relating to the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., its founding companies ; their transatlantic connections ; General Post Office licensing system ; commercial competitors from Europe prior to World War II and offshore during the 1960s.

He also paid much attention to the creation of an educational system to train personnel for industry, in particular, the creation of new " commercial " schools, and was known for his appointment of subordinates by their academic credentials instead of political connections.

Without the appetite of New England for land, and by relying solely on Aboriginals to supply them with fur at the trading posts, the French composed a complex series of military, commercial, and diplomatic connections.

The Celaya Airport has as of January 22, 2007 commercial flights to Santiago de Querétaro and there connections to other destinations.

It wasn't until the early 2000s and the availability of reliable, high capacity email servers, high speed internet connections and PCs with speakers or microphones that Unified Messaging achieved commercial success.

Not having the political connections, resources, or publicity of the NAB and the commercial radio industry, the non-profit coalition eventually lost the fight with the passage of the Communications Act of 1934.

In 1482, Lorenzo il Magnifico arranged for the marriage between the young Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco and Semiramide Appiano, daughter of the Appiani lord Jacopo III of Piombino, who brought not only lucrative commercial ties but also political connections ( the Appiani were related by marriage to the Aragonese of Naples ).

These connections moved over to PSS and other European networks as commercial X. 25 services launched.

Chelsea enjoyed good road and river connections to the seat of government at Westminster and the commercial centre of the City of London since at least the 14th century.

Reflecting Fitzrovia's connections with the avant-garde the area has a concentration of commercial art galleries and dealers.

* Concerns over connections between the Boeing 787 and the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber prompted Boeing to take elaborate steps cleansing the commercial jet of any military technology.