Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), widow of Enrico Caruso; by Dorothy Russell Calvit. daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell Moore. Mrs. Calvit claimed Mrs. Caruso had a $50,000 diamond & emerald ring of her mother's which the actress entrusted to her husband, the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain. New York State Supreme Court Justice McGeehan instructed Mrs. Caruso to show cause why she should not answer questions concerning the ring...
...institution's founder; Russian-born Chairman of the Executive Committee Saul Singer; Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel, one-time prosecutor of the city's police and judiciary investigation; Herbert Singer, 24-year-old son of Saul, law clerk in Counsel Kresel's office; Henry W. Pollock, executive vice president in charge of the bank's law department...
...last week, after a criminal trial which lasted three months-the longest in the history of New York county-justice was meted out to the other four. All save Pollock, on whom the jury could not agree, were found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring...
Suit Won. By Mrs. Dorothy Russell Calvit, daughter of the late Actress Lillian Russell, who married the late Ambassador to Spain Alexander Pollock Moore: to obtain a re-accounting of her mother's estate and to withhold distribution of the Ambassador's $600,000 estate. Charge (upheld in Pittsburgh Orphans' Court): that Ambassador Moore had "fraudulently acquired assets of his wife's estate while acting as executor thereof." Mrs. Calvit's claim to one-half the Moore estate, under an alleged pre-nuptial agreement between her mother and stepfather, will be adjudged after the estate has been accounted...
...gave a cup for a transatlantic sailing race from the U. S. to Santander. He gave the King of Spain Trophy for annual competition in the eight-metre class held in U. S. waters. Alfonso's admiration for U. S. businessmen (he profited handsomely from the late Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore's advice on U. S. stocks) helped bring Spain's telephone monopoly to International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. His enthusiasm for U. S. cinema is great...