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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.
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.
David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".
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.
David Astor, the Hon.
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.

David and was
David Cortlandt was tired beyond almost the limits of his flesh.
David Cortlandt had certain psychic intuitions that this rebellion was not wholly what it appeared on the surface.
He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.
The gruesome humor of the Nazis was not forgotten -- the gas chamber with a sign on it with the name of a Jewish foundation and bearing a copper Star of David -- nor the gratuitous sadism of SS officers.
The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.
The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.
A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.
Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.
This was the letter which would or would not enroll his son, David, in Hanford.
That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??
President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.
Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.
The rediscovery of the Nepōhualtzintzin was due to the Mexican engineer David Esparza Hidalgo, who in his wanderings throughout Mexico found diverse engravings and paintings of this instrument and reconstructed several of them made in gold, jade, encrustations of shell, etc.
This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).
In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.
In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.
Granatstein and Norman Hillmer found that Mackenzie was in the # 11 place just after John Sparrow David Thompson.
The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.
David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.
This battle was part of a civil war between David and Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul.

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