Word: amtorg
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Already these myriads of power plants, tractor works, mines, factories and whole new cities for workers have meant to U. S. business since the stockmarket crash $450,000,000 in contracts now being executed. Moreover Amtorg, the principal trade representative of the Soviet Government in Manhattan, has bought more than $211,580,000 worth of U. S. goods in the past six years...
...Congressman Hamilton Fish, onetime Harvard footballer. Loudly he warned the House that Communists were seizing U. S. schools, were plotting to overthrow the Government. He blamed the Third International for labor troubles in the textile industry of the South. He cited the charges of Soviet propaganda made against Amtorg Trading Corp. by New York City's Police Commissioner Whalen (TIME, May 12), now retired. He demanded the immediate deportation to Russia of all alien Communists, seriously recommended that U. S. citizens favoring Communism be shipped to a desert island in the Philippines to practice their political creed alone...
...credit for this investigation when Representative Snell, potent chairman of the potent Rules Committee, rewrote the Fish resolution, put his own name on it. To be investigated were "Communist propaganda in the U. S. . . . The Communist party of the U. S. and all affiliated organizations . . . the Communist International, the Amtorg Trading Corp., The Daily Worker and all groups or individuals who . . . advise, teach or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the U. S. or attempt to undermine our Republican form of government...
...Grafpen" replies to "Fedorov" (not "Feodor" as above) from Manhattan on the letterhead of Amtorg dated "loth March 1930," naming over a list of "Comrades" whom he asks shall not be recalled to Moscow, as this "might result in a very serious handicap in our work...
...these indispensable comrades is described as "Bogdanov," and this fact would presumably be the basis of any suit by Chairman Bogdanov of Amtorg against Commissioner Whalen...