Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent U. S. diplomatists, none is more conspicuous than Alexander Pollock Moore, the large, hearty, worldly Pittsburgher whom President Harding picked for Ambassador to Spain. When he went to Madrid, Mr. Moore's fame rested on two things-the Pittsburgh Leader, which he had published, and the late Lillian Russell, whose widower he was. Spain's sporting royalty found him a "typical American," loquacious, gustatory, with a head as hard as it was large. Not a few good "tips" did King Alfonso get on U. S. stocks. In return Mr. Moore acquired, by the time he resigned...
Tabloid newspapers may be rescued from their present rather ignominious condition among the elite if the plans of A. P. Moore, former U. S. Ambassador to Spain, are realized. The Hearst tabloids in New York, and Boston have passed into the hands of the ex-Ambassador, and with them he intends to show the true possibilities of that most modern type of journalism. The use of pictures to give the news of the day has no essential disadvantage, and under a management that would eliminate the stress now laid by them on sordid and sensational items they...
Died. Prince Karl Max von Lichnowsky, 68, indiscreetly honest German ambassador at the Court of St. James's just before the War; at his Silesian estate near Breslau, Germany; of apoplexy...
Seiior Pueyrredon's action was a Rooseveltian gesture. At one stroke he resigned as head of the Argentine Delegation and as Ambassador to Washington...
...Three resolutions condemning various phases of immigration restriction were adopted by the Conference in plenary session, last week. After each was read out, a U. S. Delegate, Henry Prather Fletcher, able U. S. Ambassador to Italy, rose and announced that the U. S. reserves to itself the right of determining its own "purely domestic" immigration policy without reference to any international authority whatever...