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...Ivan Matveef arrived in the U. S. early this year from Russia to buy tool machinery for U. S. S. R. While on temporary credentials he became a vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp., thus violating immigration regulations against an alien transferring his activities while in the country. Secretary of Labor Doak, no friend of Reds, moved swiftly and vigorously to deport him. U. S. firms selling him tool machinery protested loudly to the White House. Last week it developed that President Hoover, anxious to retain Soviet trade, had interceded with an order to Secretary Doak to adopt a more...
...Soviet Russia the conservative, cotton-growing South has no love, is glad the State Department accords it no recognition. Yet last week most Southern cotton planters wished the U. S. and U. S. S. R. were on better diplomatic and commercial terms. Amtorg Trading Corp., the Soviet's commercial agent in the U. S., offered to buy 250,000 of the Federal Farm Board's 1,300.000 bales of cotton. Though such a sale would greatly relieve the Board, possibly up prices, the Amtorg offer was rejected chiefly because the U. S. Government cannot do business with...
Russia's trade representatives in Manhattan, Amtorg Trading Corp., promptly announced that on Jan. 23 they received a cable from Moscow concerning Mr. Harty: "This man was fired for unbecoming behavior...
...Amtorg Trading Corp. does not finance OGPU (Soviet secret police...
...conference on Russia. According to the article, eight of the nine speakers definitely prejudiced in favor of an American acceptance of the Soviet included: Colonel Hugh Cooper, interested in hydroelectric developments on the Dnelper River, Harold Kellock of the Soviet Information Burean in Washington. Peter Brogdnoy, head of the Amtorg Trading Company and Paul D. Cravath representing other New York financial interests...