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Serious, square-headed Ivan I. Gordeeff, agent in the U. S. for Russia's great Torgsin chain-store system, proudly announced last week in Manhattan that Torgsin had taken over the U. S. 5?-&-10?? store idea. Torgsin's 5-&-10 kopek stores are already doing business in...
The giant crabs, salmon, herring and cod that swarm along the broken Russian coast of the Okhotsk, Japan and Bering Seas, were last week the subject of grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded...
Auction day for this year's fishing rights fell last week. As the big, bearded Russians and the little, rough-handed Japanese gathered in Vladivostok with their bids, the Soviet Government abruptly informed the Japanese that the ruble-yen rate was now 75 sen. As the yen had depreciated...
Comrade Litvinov, born Wallach, first attracted world attention 27 years ago in Paris. In the streets of Tiflis in the Caucasus an armored truck of the Russian Imperial Bank had just been held up by a hard-eyed young revolutionary, later to be known as Josef Stalin. Pudgy Comrade Litvinov...
Despite such chaos in ruble values the Soviet State Bank can boast that its bonds are endorsed by the second son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament. Son Corliss does not belong to the Communist Party, calls himself a "critical Communist sympathizer," has an extremely pretty wife who is a...