Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alexander Pollock Moore, 62, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Poland; at Los Angeles: of bronchial pneumonia. A native Pittsburghian, he rose from copy boy and reporter to be at various times editor of the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1912 he married Beauty Lillian Russell, was devoted to her until her death in, 1921. In 1928 he purchased the New York Daily Mirror (tabloid), sold it six months later. At his deathbed was Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose ranch he had been visiting...
...President elevated the U. S. diplomatic post at Poland from ministerial to ambassadorial, appointed Alexander Pollock Moore, lately Ambassador to Spain and then to Peru, as First Ambassador to Poland...