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.

Astor also made a disastrous speech stating that alcohol use was the reason England's national cricket team was defeated by the Australian national cricket team.

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.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

* 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( she had been elected to that position on November 28 ).

Mary Astor kept her distance from the Hawks family after Kenneth's death.

She even goes on to state that Lady Nancy Astor ' even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England '.

** Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the second woman elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the first to take her seat ( the first elected was Constance Markievicz ).

Through her many social connections, Lady Astor became involved in a kind of political circle called Milner's Kindergarten.

Astor had several disadvantages in her campaign.

( While Lady Astor was the first female member of the House of Commons who actually took up her seat, she was not the first woman to be elected to the House.

) Countess Markievicz had been in Holloway prison for Sinn Féin activities during her election, and other suffragettes had been imprisoned for arson ; Astor had no such background.

Early in her first term, a fellow Member of Parliament named Horatio Bottomley, who felt Astor was an obstacle in his desire to dominate the " soldier ’ s friend " issue, sought to ruin her political career.

Bottomley eventually went to prison for fraud, a fact that Astor used to her advantage in later campaigns.

The first of these friendships began when Margaret Wintringham was elected after Astor had been in office for two years, but the most surprising might have been her friendship with " Red Ellen " Wilkinson, a former Communist representative in the Labour Party.

Astor conceded this, but her closeness with other female MPs dissipated with time and by 1931 she became hostile to female Labour members such as Susan Lawrence.

Lady Astor was initially sceptical, but later the two women became close and Astor used her wealth to aid their social efforts.

During the course of her adult life, Astor alienated many others with her sharp words as well.

An angry crowd headed up Broadway toward Astor Place and fought running battles with mounted troops from behind improvised barricades, but this time the authorities quickly got the upper hand.

Another version of the story is that he canvassed with Nancy, Lady Astor, MP for Plymouth Sutton, and received an embarrassingly friendly welcome at boarding houses who were used to renting rooms by the hour to sailors and their lady companions.

In 1779 at age 16 he emigrated to London, where he learned English while working for his brother, George Astor, manufacturing musical instruments.

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 ).

At the time of his death in 1848, Astor was the wealthiest person in the United States, leaving an estate estimated to be worth at least $ 20 million.

After Macready " retired " to America, he continued to perform in the role ; in 1849, he was involved in a rivalry with American actor Edwin Forrest, whose partisans hissed Macready at Astor Place, leading to what is commonly called the Astor Place Riot.

* 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

Through 1996 – 2002 Gould was Vincent Astor Visiting Research Professor of Biology at New York University.

* December 25 – Why Marry ?, the first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.

Shortly after its premiere at the Astor Theater, New York, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, hailed the film as a masterpiece.

Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan at the " Summit " recording, Milan, Italy 1974 .</ br > Photograph by Pino Presti Piazzolla, after leaving Troilo's orchestra in the 1940s, led numerous ensembles beginning with the 1946 Orchestra, the 1955 Octeto Buenos Aires, the 1960 " First Quintet ", the 1971 Conjunto 9 (" Noneto "), the 1978 " Second Quintet " and the 1989 New Tango Sextet.

A blue plaque unveiled in 1987 commemorates Astor at St. James's Square.

Astor later proposed creating a " Women ’ s Party ", but the female Labour MPs thought it was a ridiculous idea because at that time their party had power and promised them positions.

A statue at Cliveden, overlooking 42 inscribed stones dedicated to the dead of World War I. Edgar Bertram Mackennal | Sir Bertram MacKennal's figure represents Canada with the head reputedly modeled by Lady Astor.

Lady Astor died in 1964 at her daughter's home at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire.

Of his fortune ( estimated at $ 7, 000, 000 ) approximately $ 4, 000, 000 was bequeathed for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York ; but, as the will was successfully contested by relatives, only about $ 3, 000, 000 of the bequest was applied to its original purpose ; in 1895, the Tilden Trust was combined with the Astor and Lenox libraries to found the New York Public Library, whose building bears his name on its front.

The Champ debuted on November 9, 1931, at the Astor Theatre in New York City.

Despite his disheveled appearance he was sent for a test assignment: to observe and write about a luncheon at the Astor House.

Mr. Alonzo Smith ( Leon Ames ) and Mrs. Anna Smith ( Mary Astor ) have four daughters: Rose ( Lucille Bremer ), Esther, Agnes, and Tootie ; and a son, Lon Jr. ( Henry H. Daniels, Jr .) Esther, the second eldest daughter ( Judy Garland ), is in love with the boy next door, John Truett ( Tom Drake ), although he does not notice her at first.

" The film is a New York Times Critics ' Pick: after seeing it at the Astor Theatre, Bosley Crowther called it a " a warm and beguiling picturization based on Sally Benson's memoirs of her folks.

The film premiered on July 14, 1942 in New York City at the Astor Theatre, and was shown for one night only at " forty neighborhood theatres ".