Word: bron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amtorg, Am-Derutra. Full name of Amtorg is American Trading Organization. Ask curly-haired Saul George Bron, Am-torg Board Chairman, if Amtorg is a Russian governmental agent and he will become voluble in explaining that it is a U. S. corporation, organized in 1924, and no Soviet arm. Nevertheless, Amtorg, like Amkino, Am-Derutra, and many another Russian trading corporation, acts with the approval and the co-operation of the Soviet government, or specifically, with the Soviet Supreme Economic Council...
...Bron. Information on Board Chairman Bron's pre-Soviet period is extremely vague, inasmuch as very few of the individuals now prominent in Russia were famed members of Tsaristic society. He was born in the Ukraine, studied at Zurich and Kiev (he is a Doctor of Philosophy), taught school. He emerged from Revolutionary chaos as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine (1917-22). He has served on the Supreme Economic Council and has been Amtorg's chairman since 1927. Trader Bron is married, has two children, lives in Manhattan...
...national crop to a bare sufficiency for Russia's own grain needs. There were even scareheads in the U. S. press, last fortnight, that the Soviets faced a famine and would have to start buying U. S. grain. To spike this rumor up rose potent Saul G. Bron, Super-Purchasing & SuperSelling Agent of the Soviet State in Manhattan. Mr. Bron is large, untidy, jovial, shrewd and bland. He is a University of Zurich Ph. D. He served apprenticeship to his present post of huge responsibility as Minister of Foreign Trade for the Ukraine. With all the emphasis...
Thus strikingly Mr. Bron called attention to a new world trade trend. Supplementary information from Moscow indicated that Soviet oil production has been speeded up this year to reach 12,500,000 tons-with an export total of 3,500,000 or nearly three times the largest export figure ever reached under the Tsars. A new Soviet "cracking plant" on the Black Sea is delivering refined gasoline to tankers at 8? a gallon. The Soviet textile industry is up to an export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against...
...Saul G. Bron, affable, heavyset, but not gross, able Russian financier arrived on the Mauretania. He headed a commission of industrial leaders prepared, they said, to spend in behalf of Soviet Russia. $40,000,000 for machinery to aid in the modernizing of agricultural methods. Said Saul Bron: "The construction of tractors and trucks for the development of the country is our main concern. Our people are too poor to think of buying pleasure automobiles...