Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan. She had swirled among Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...
...Peru having raised no objection, President Coolidge appointed Alexander Pollock Moore, hearty Pittsburgher, to succeed Miles Poindexter of Seattle as U. S. Ambassador at Lima...
...Moore mystery of a fortnight ago became more of a mystery last week. Both of the rumors about Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, came true. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Peru five days after he had purchased two tabloids: the New York Daily Mirror and the Boston Advertiser. William Randolph Hearst, who had never before sold any profitable publication, was the seller. The price was considered too "personal" to be made public. People wondered how Mr. Moore intended to divide his time between solving Peruvian diplomacy and pleasing U. S. gum-chewers...
...matters connected thereto, filled the years frim 1902 to 1914 and took him around the world and back. Like the index of an atlas reads the list of countries in which he lived and worked during these years: Australia, Belgium, Borneo, Burma, Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Malay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, and South Africa...
People were mystified. Why Moore? Why Peru...