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.

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 ( 1948 – 1975 )

* 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.

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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.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

Frazetta authority David Winiewicz described the everyday working mode of operation in Li ' l Abner Dailies: 1954 Volume 20 ( Kitchen Sink, 1994 ):

According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

David is described as someone renowned for his skill at playing the harp, and consequently summoned to Saul's court to calm his moods.

David is described as a shepherd boy arriving at the battlefield to aid his brothers, and is overheard by Saul, leading to David challenging Goliath and defeating the Philistines.

Through the work of Werner Israel, Brandon Carter, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating that a stationary black hole solution is completely described by the three parameters of the Kerr – Newman metric ; mass, angular momentum, and electric charge.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

David Pleasance, managing director of Commodore UK, described the A600 as a ' complete and utter screw-up '.

Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.

In the ensuing conversation with Harty, as described by biographer David Buckley, " the singer made hardly any sense at all throughout what was quite an extensive interview.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

Admiral John Jellicoe, described by Churchill as the only man who could " lose the war in an afternoon " by losing the strategic British superiority in dreadnought battleships, was not a dashing showman like David Beatty.

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

The Hasmonean kingdom was a conscious attempt to revive the Judah described in the Bible: a Jewish monarchy ruled from Jerusalem and stretching over all the territories once ruled by David and Solomon.

These terms were described by David Cameron as " unacceptable ", and by The Daily Telegraph as " racist ", and a British Muslim youth organisation called the Prince a " thug ", a statement that was later retracted.

American novelist David Foster Wallace described Steps as a " collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever ".

David Norwood, British GM, in recalling Judit beating him when he was an established player and she was just a child, described her as, " this cute little auburn-haired monster who crushed you.

Owing to his controversial research that has sparked political debates, including Ontario's premier David Peterson calling Rushton a racist, in 2005 The Ottawa Citizen described Rushton as the most famous university professor in Canada.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

He scored 187 not out in four hours, an innings described by leading historian David Frith as " among the most stirring innings Test cricket has ever produced ".

In a 2008 book, David Neumark and William L. Wascher described their analysis of studies on the minimum wage, from several countries covering a period of over 50 years ( but primarily from the 1990s onward ).

The circle of fifths, first described in 1728 by Johann David Heinichen in his book Der General-bass, has been used ever since as a means of illustrating the relative harmonic distance between musical keys.