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...Willmott Harsant Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, Walter Duranty is a veteran at his post. Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist...
Slated for the great honor of election to the Party's Central Committee by the Congress last week was another Jew, roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. A few years ago Stalin, after he ousted Jew Leon Trotsky, was markedly opposed to admitting Jews into high Soviet office, but with Kaganovich now his right hand man and Litvinoff wearing the laurels of his triumphant Washington visit. Russia's Dictator rated last week as benignly pro-Semite...
...past 30. Just when he abandoned his real name of Jacob Simon Herzig no one knows. His youth was punctured with one jail term for grand larceny and another for forging his father's name to a check. Shortly after the turn of the century he founded Maxim & Gay, "Turf Information Bureau," in Manhattan. His "information" was good and he often sold 5,000 tips a day at $5 each. Having a great love for the horses and no faith in his own tips, he soon dropped the $3,000,000 he had so quickly acquired. But he learned...
...Cheered chubby, astute Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, fresh from his triumph at Washington...
...years ago. Part of Armenia is a Soviet Republic but all Armenians do not relish U. S. S. R. rule. Especially hostile to the Soviet is Tashnag, an organization dedicated to the restoration of the old Armenian Republic. Archbishop Tourian, 54, only churchman at the Manhattan banquet to Maxim Litvinoff last November, was accused of being proSoviet. He aroused factional wrath last summer, on Armenian Day at the Chicago World's Fair, by declining to make a speech until a pro-Soviet Armenian flag was removed. After being ganged last August at a church picnic in Westboro Mass...