Word: amtorg
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...Communists had hardly settled in their cells when they acquired neighbors who also look to Moscow. Five officials of the Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet Russia's commercial arm in the U.S., were installed temporarily in the federal jail until they raised $15,000 bail apiece. Amtorg, which calls itself a private corporation, was indicted for failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The Russians (and a sixth who is in Russia) were indicted for their part in the firm's refusal to sign...
...frankly hopes that U.S. industry will buy its films. One of the largest customers for earlier offerings was Amtorg (Soviet-U.S. trading company). OTS will continue to sell its wares to all comers. Wide distribution of German technical knowledge will do more to increase the lead of U.S. industry than any attempt at secrecy...
...underground, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Rumanian Communists. On one of her underground visits to Switzerland she met and married Marcel Pauker, a Rumanian Communist engineer and journalist. Together they spent the late 1920s in the U.S., working for the Soviet trading agency Amtorg...
...three real leaders of the Rumanian Communist Party, all able and none of them native Rumanians. The three: Emil Bodnzras (real name Bodnarenko), a Ukrainian from Bessarabia; Laszlo Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania; and Ana Pauker, a German-Jewish Communist whose husband was formerly an official of Amtorg (Russian-American Trading Co.) in Manhattan. The brains of Rumania's Communist Party, Comrade Pauker now lives handsomely in her Bucharest villa...
...Exclusives. The Russian purchase (for a rumored $120,000) was on behalf of 200 employes of Amtorg, Soviet commercial agency in the U.S. At Killenworth, the new manor lords would find rest, recreation and, above all, isolation...