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Astor did occasionally meet with Nazi officials in keeping with Neville Chamberlain's policies, and it is true that she distrusted and disliked British Foreign Secretary ( later Prime Minister ) Anthony Eden, stating that the more she saw of him the " more certain " she was that he would " never be a Disraeli ".
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Although Astor, as a Christian Scientist, did not believe in the use of medical practices, she got along well with the doctors, especially Colonel Mewburn, a surgeon.
Indeed, the Duchess of Atholl ( elected to Parliament in 1923, four years after Lady Astor ) rose to higher levels in the Tory Party before Astor did, and this was largely as Astor wished.
During this period Lady Astor did some significant work outside the political sphere.
Lady Astor did not seem to be bothered by the fact that so many of her public statements caused difficulties.
When war did come, Astor admitted that she had made mistakes, and even voted against Chamberlain, but hostility remained.
Lady Astor did not feel that her final years were a period of personal decline.
In 1862 she and her husband built a four-bay townhouse in the newly fashionable brownstone style at 350 Fifth Avenue, the present site of the Empire State Building, next door to her husband's older brother, John Jacob Astor III ; the two families were next-door neighbors for 28 years although the Astor brothers did not get along.
Despite Stuart's meticulous journal of the trip, which he presented to Astor and President James Madison, and published in France, the location of the South Pass did not become widely known.
Astor convinced his father to purchase the paper, which William did on the condition that Garvin also agree to edit the Pall Mall Gazette, which was also a property of the Astor family.
Before Helen Langhanke died of a heart ailment in January 1947, Astor said she sat in the hospital room with her mother, who was delirious and did not know her, and listened quietly as Helen told her all about terrible, selfish Lucile.
Rikers Island was subsequently used by numerous other Civil War regiments, but the name " Camp Astor " was specific to the Anderson Zouaves and did not become a general name for the military encampment on the island.
The Streatfeild's did not occupy the castle after 1900 and finally sold it to Lord Astor in 1938.
In a by-election in 1919, it became the second constituency in the UK ( and the first in Great Britain ) to elect a female MP: Nancy Astor became the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons ( the first female MP was the Sinn Féin member Constance Markievicz, who did not take her seat ).
Astor Opera House did not survive its reputation as the " Massacre Opera House " at " DisAster Place ," as burlesques and minstrel shows called it.
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In periods when theatre was considered a form of mass entertainment, there were phenomena of rival fans supporting rival actors or theatrical teams, occasionally leading to violent outbursts having many similarities to present-day violence of sports fans – the Astor Place Riot in 1849 New York City being a conspicuous example.
Wealthy summer residents such as Willie K Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor and I. Townsend Burden would occasionally race automobiles of various types there.
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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.
With Philip Snowden back in Parliament for Colne Valley in 1922 and Labour as the official opposition, Lord and Lady Astor arranged a dinner party where King George V and Queen Mary could meet Labour leaders Snowden, J. R. Clynes, James Henry Thomas and their wives.
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Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.
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.
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.
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.
His older brother Henry Astor preceded him to New York, establishing a butcher shop with which John Jacob Astor was initially involved.
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 ).
In 1800, following the example of the Empress of China, the first American trading vessel to China, Astor traded furs, teas and sandalwood with Canton in China, and greatly benefited from it.
His conditions were that the tenant could do whatever they wish with the lots for twenty-one years, after which they must renew the lease or Astor would take back the lot.
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.
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.
Astor College for the Arts federated with St Radigunds Primary School ( then renamed White Cliffs Primary College for the Arts ) to form the Dover Federation for the Arts ( DFA ).
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.
The following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray.
By 1896, with financing from moguls like J. P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor IV, and the Vanderbilts, they had constructed giant underground conduits leading to turbines generating upwards of, and were sending power as far as Buffalo, away.
Philip Kerr's conversion came only after experimenting with Eastern religion, but he later became a spiritual advisor for Astor.
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.
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.
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* 1836 John Jacob Astor House, a hotel on the site of Astor's home in New York City that lasted 80 years until city officials announced in 1913 that " the southern half of the hotel was to be torn down to accommodate construction of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company subway ( now the N and R lines ).
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Reputedly the villa spurred more building, including a house by William B. Astor ( married to a Jones cousin ), a phenomenon described as " keeping up with the Joneses ".
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* 1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Several of the state secondary schools now specialise: Astor College for the Arts ; Dover Grammar School for Girls is a selective specialist Humanities College ; Dover Grammar School for Boys, a selective Business and Enterprise College ; St Edmund's Catholic College for the Performing Arts ; and Dover Christ Church Academy, a specialist Maths, ICT and Music Academy.
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.
Lady Astor is nearly as famous for her scathing wit as she is for her political career.
Examples include an instance in which Churchill is supposed to have told Lady Astor that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which she retorted, " You ’ re not handsome enough to have such fears.
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.
Astor is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Lake County and Volusia County, Florida, United States.
Astor is located at ( 29. 1639 ,-81. 5346 ).
Astor is primarily accessible by land via Florida State Road 40, which is the main highway through the community.
Today the community of Astor is largely reliant upon tourism, and is a popular spot for winter visitors from the north and fishing, hunting, and boating enthusiasts.
Across the river is the Astor Marina.
One of the key names in modern tango, poet Horacio Ferrer, who contributed the lyrics for several of the most important tango works by Astor Piazzolla, is Uruguayan as well.
NoHo, for North of Houston Street ( as contrasted with SoHo, South of Houston ) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly bounded by Houston Street on the south, The Bowery on the east, Astor Place on the north, and Broadway on the west.
In 1925 Nancy Astor MP noted in the Commons that " There is no more pitiable sight in life than a child which has been arrested for playing in the street ".
Two Arabian Knights ( 1927 ) is an American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd, Mary Astor and Louis Wolheim.
The Astor Theatre on Chapel Street is a modern / art deco styled cinema built in 1935 to the design of Ray Morton Taylor.
This is mainly due to the 1st Lord Astor who radically altered the interior layout and decoration c. 1894 – 95.
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