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...Amtorg is a suite of offices on Manhattan's arch-respectable Fifth Avenue where businessmen from all over the U. S. deal with Red Russians who talk broken English but drive buying and selling bargains to a gross of $115,000,000 yearly...
Backed by the goodwill of many a potent, impeccable U. S. corporation with whom he deals in millions, bold Board Chairman Peter Alexeivich Bogdanov of Amtorg actually dared last week to sug gest that he will sue sleek Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, Police Commissioner of New York. If Red Bogdanov succeeds in silencing Mr. Whalen, "ruble diplomacy" will have won its outstanding victory thus far, for the Commissioner charged last week nothing less than that Amtorg is a backer, political and financial, of organized Communist agitation in the U. S., that Amtorg in short is helping to foment "the World...
Elected. Peter A. Bogdanov, onetime chairman of the Soviet Supreme Economic Council; to be board chairman of Amtorg Trading Corp. (semiofficial commercial liaison...
...build a capital in a wilderness. He employed a Frenchman,* Pierre Charles L'Enfant, to blue-pencil the streets and domes that lobbyists and starlings (see p. 50) would later infest. Just so, last week, the Supreme Economic Council of Soviet Russia, represented by Amtorg Trading Corp. in Manhattan, signed contracts to retain, the Detroit architectural firm of Albert Kahn, Inc., as consulting architects for two years of Russia's famed five-year industrialization program which calls for the expenditure...
...their clashing, despatched from Moscow by air Railway Commissioner L. B. Serebriakov to confer with China's Foreign Minister. Onlookers wondered how oldtime Bolshevik Serebriakov, now high in the Communist Party, would deal with Communist-enemy Wang. Wise ones pointed out that Comrade Serebriakov is also vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp. of Manhattan, giant trade outlet for Russian goods; that he would doubtless do his conciliatory best to avoid Russia's having to revert to the slow...