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...revolt was said to have been organized by Anna Pauker, formerly a left-wing trade-union organizer in the U.S., where her husband, a Rumanian by birth but a Soviet citizen, worked in the personnel department of Amtorg (Russia's official trading corporation...
...personal request of Franklin Roosevelt, Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones signed a contract with Russia's Amtorg Trading Corp., pledged $50,000,000 in credits to the Soviet Union...
...direct instructions from the President, Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones made a deal last week which was not like Jesse Jones at all. With U.S.S.R.'s Amtorg Trading Corp. he signed a contract to buy for delivery sometime in the future $100,000,000 worth of manganese, chromite, asbestos, platinum. Against this contract he promised to advance $50,000,000-$10,000,000 of it at once...
...figure in the Government's spy investigations, an FBI man shushed him in alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure who came and went as he pleased, was reported to have studied in U.S. technical schools, and was believed by subordinates...
...Stokowski's return was the first performance outside Russia of the sixth and latest symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, at 34 the No. 1 Soviet composer. The Philadelphia Orchestra got first crack at No. 6 as it might have arranged for a ton of caviar: by negotiating with Amtorg Trading Corp., paying a fee so stiff (amount kept secret) that it had to be specially approved by the Philadelphia Orchestra directors...