He was still writing reviews for other magazines, and becoming a respected pundit among left-wing circles but also close friends with people on the right like Powell, Astor and Malcolm Muggeridge.

In time, his bitter rejection of Catholicism also influenced Lady Astor, intensifying her own anti-Catholicism.

However, Astor also had some positive attributes in her campaign, such as her earlier work with the Canadian soldiers, her other charitable work during the war, her vast financial resources for the campaign and, most of all, her ability to improvise.

Although she was active in charitable efforts, Astor also became noted for a streak of cruelty and callousness.

Although Astor had criticised the Nazis for devaluing the position of women, she was also adamantly opposed to the idea of another World War.

Despite her anti-Catholicism, Lady Astor also had a friendship with Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and the correspondence between them is reportedly filled with anti-Semitic language.

Lord Astor also began moving toward left-wing politics in his last years, and that exacerbated their differences.

" Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, " Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?

The film was a considerable success and brought renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead.

William Astor also built a hotel, saw mill, and eventually a railroad, the St. John's and Lake Eustis Railway, which departed town headed inland towards the communities of Eustis and Leesburg.

The " Petticoat Government " also received the attention of Lady Astor, a member of the British Parliament who expressed a desire to visit Clintwood and to see how the experiment w as going.

* Astor Radio Corporation, an Australian consumer electronics manufacturer from 1926 onwards, which also owned the Astor Records label

It is named for The St. Regis Hotel in New York, which was built in 1904 in Manhattan at 5th Avenue and 55th Street by John Jacob Astor IV, who also founded the Astoria Hotel ( which later became the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ) and who died in 1912 on the RMS Titanic.

He had already been created Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, in 1916, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

As a descendant of the first Viscount Astor, Lord Astor of Hever is also in remainder to this peerage and its subsidiary title Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent.

Another brother, Henry Astor also emigrated to America.

Cliveden House Hotel in Buckinghamshire, England, once home to Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor ( née Langhorne ), also contains Lord and Lady Astor Suites.

Then in London, Astor at once made a contract with the Northwest Company of Montreal and Quebec ( then the magnate of the Canadian Northwest fur trade ).

The 1920s were the most positive period in Parliament for Astor as she made several effective speeches and introduced a bill that passed.

When war did come, Astor admitted that she had made mistakes, and even voted against Chamberlain, but hostility remained.

The railroad arrived in 1880, the first train coming from Astor to Fort Mason, where passengers and freight made lake steamer connections to Leesburg, Helena, Yalaha, Bloomfield, Lane Park and Tavares.

* The Astor family made their fortune in the 18th century, through real estate, the hotel industry and other investments.

In 1893 the estate was purchased by a very wealthy American, William Waldorf Astor ( later 1st Lord Astor ), who made sweeping alterations to the gardens and the interior of the house, but lived at Cliveden as a recluse after the early death of his wife.

The pagoda in the water garden was made for the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 and was purchased by the 1st Lord Astor from the Bagatelle estate in Paris in 1900.

John Jacob Astor III continued the charitable works made by his ancestors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( in 1887 he presented it with his wife's collection of costly laces and left a bequest of $ 50, 000 ), Trinity Church ( with his brother he presented as a memorial to their father a sculptured reredos and altar costing $ 80, 000 ), and the Astor Library ( he left a bequest of $ 450, 000, bringing the family benefactions to the institution up to about to $ 1, 500, 000 ).

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance ; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

Upon the death of his father in early 1890, Astor inherited a personal fortune that made him the richest man in America.

Astor made several business acquisitions while living in London.

In 1912 he sold the Magazine, and in 1914 made a present of the Gazette and The Observer, with the building in Newton Street and its contents, to his son Waldorf Astor.

By the mid-1950s, David Astor had made The Observer a successful and influential paper that published points of view from the right and left.

During his tenure as head of The Times, John Astor had the newspaper sponsor Edmund Hillary's expedition that made the first successful climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

Astor made her debut in the 1920 film The Scarecrow.

Colonel Astor found another lifebelt which he reportedly cut with a pen knife to show Madeleine what it was made of.

The camp of the Anderson Zouaves was named Camp Astor in compliment to millionaire John Jacob Astor Jr. who provided funding for the army, and who appears to have made a significant contribution to the raising of the Anderson Zouaves in particular, with the Astor ladies being credited with the manufacture of the zouave uniforms worn by the recruits of this regiment.

Born in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell ( 1929 ) with Mary Astor.

David Astor, a friend of Orwell's who lived in Sutton Courtenay, explained the problem to his local vicar, and arrangements were made.

Since the Viper Project successfully made a dent into the profits made by The Outfit, they kidnap Astor and demand that he steal the Defender.

It was generally believed that it was Lady Astor who, during a World War II speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army who were fighting in the Italian campaign as the " D-Day Dodgers ".

The Cooper Union at Astor Place, where Abraham Lincoln gave his famed Cooper Union speech, is one of downtown's most storied buildings.

As a result of her performance, Astor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, thanking Bette Davis and Tchaikovsky in her acceptance speech.

On November 10, 1937, Morgenthau gave a speech to the Academy of Political Science at New York's Hotel Astor, in which he noted that the Depression had required deficit spending, but that the government needed to cut spending to revive the economy.