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Grave rumors rumbled in the Near East last week, reverberated in the Far East. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Valentinovich Tchitcherin met "secretly" at Odessa and discussed there, according to despatches, a Turko-Russian pact which it was allegedly proposed to expand into an "Asiatic League" embracing in addition China, Persia and Afghanistan...
Other scholars, who had labored long to establish the historicity of Jesus Christ and the Twelve Apostles, read Georg Brandes's book avidly, scoffed at the old-age gesture of a literary critic...
Averell Harriman and the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought control of the Georg von Giesche Heirs Mining Co. in Poland for $10,000,000 (TIME, June 14). They have just organized the Silesian-American Corp. to operate those Silesian properties as a subsidiary of Anaconda, the first important instance of an industrial enterprise of one 'country so overlording a similar one in another country. Last week Silesian-American sold $15,000,000 collateral trust bonds in Manhattan, to use in operations...
...descendants of Georg von Giesche have operated in Upper Silesia, gathering into their Bergwerke Georg von Giesche Gesellschaft Erben (Estate) zinc mines (the largest in Europe), bituminous coal fields (present production 3,500,000 tons yearly), lead mines, concentrating plants, smelting works, melting furnaces, rolling mills, agricultural lands, 20,000 employes. The ancestor in 1704 willed that no other than his lineal descendants might own stock in his Estate. But War and aftermath have impoverished these descendants. They had to appeal to the Anaconda Copper Co. and to William Averell Harriman (who has spent much time in Europe since...
...Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Georg Tchitcherin, officially charged that Chang's troops interfered last week with the Soviet-operated sector of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin. Allegedly M. Ivanoff, the Soviet general manager of this sector of the railway, was "arrested" by Chang's soldiers, who thought that they should be allowed to ride free. Certain rolling stock appears to have been smashed, a mail car looted, and two Soviet engineers forced to operate trains on which the Chinese soldiers rode...