Word: bogdanov
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Refutation. Prime Amtorg witness was Peter A. Bogdanov, thickset, blue-eyed, bearded Amtorg board chairman. He explained the history of Amtorg? founded in 1924 as a U. S. concern owned by the Soviet Bank of Foreign Trade. In six years, he said, it has bought $580,000,000 worth of U. S. goods for export to Russia, secured $30,000,000 in credits from U. S. banks. Its trade had declined lately as a result of world outbursts against the Soviet's anti-religious program (TIME, March 10) and attacks upon it by Mr. Whalen. A Russian revolutionary since...
Boycott Threat. Comrade Bogdanov denied that Amtorg indulged in Communist propaganda or served as a money conduit between Moscow and Communism. Said...
...Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom on the Soviet art-frontier. To know Russian esthetics one must be familiar with the work of Theatre Producers Meyerhold, Tairov; Cinema Directors Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Room. Preobrazhenskaya; Poets Yessenin, Maiakovski, Asejev, Blok; Authors Ogniev. Bogdanov, Malashkin; Artists Gabo, Vinogradov, Radimov; and understand the meaning of the Russian symbols, MGSPS. VAPP, NEP, GOSIZDAT (or simply. GIZ), AKHRR, OSA, all of which is clearly set forth in Voices of October. The Authors. No pop-eyed casual visitors to the Soviet Union, Authors Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick...
...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...
Both Chairman Bogdanov and Director Skvirsky denounced the letters as "absolute forgeries." The New York World had fun hunting up Russian linguistic experts and reporting on their say-so that the phrase "pervo-may-skich-vystoopleni," which Mr. Whalen's translator said meant "May Day outbreaks," might better be rendered "First of May parades...