Word: bogdanov
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...squeeze American firms and get better terms. This was an unwise attitude and showed a lack of knowledge of the situation. How could a manufacturer grant better terms when he had to look for money himself? I raised my voice against this foolish attitude. Soon after, Mr. Peter A. Bogdanov [now chairman of Amtorg] came to the United States and brought a bunch of Communists with him. It was decided by him to 'teach Americans a lesson.' Telegrams were sent to Moscow with the request to divert orders from the United States to other countries. The Amtorg...
Rebuttal for Amtorg came from President A. S. Mamaev, Chairman Bogdanov being "out of town." Said he: "It is untrue that Amtorg attempted to bring pressure on the U. S. Government by diverting orders to Europe. . . . Prices offered there were particularly low. . . . Amtorg did not send these orders to Europe: Amtorg lost them to Europe...
...restaurants, poked suspiciously in closets and cupboards, discovered many an old sock clinking with kopecks. Hardly ever were the hoardings large. An old woman peddler of Kiev who had amassed 800 rubles ($411) vas arrested, others were severely scolded, released. In Moscow, however, secret police arrested nine, including one Bogdanov. speculator; one Simonov, cashier; two private traders by the name of Frolov and Mashkov. Each of these amateur numismatists had assembled nearly $2.500 in coins...
While Soviet papers flayed them as "counter revolutionaries," Bogdanov, Simonov, Frolov, Mashkov & companions were marched in front of a firing squad, shot dead...
...Williamstown. Meanwhile U. S.-U. S. S. R. trade relations came to the fore in another quarter of the week's news when the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., opened its discussions. In halting English, Peter A. Bogdanov, board chairman of Amtorg, complained that his agency suffered from "a certain lack of confidence created by the many baseless rumors regarding economic conditions in the Soviet Union and the recent unwarranted attacks on the Amtorg." He repeated his warning that if U. S. financing conditions for Russian trade continued "unsatisfactory," Soviet purchasers would shift their business from...