Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Articles were published some weeks ago in the Socialist newspaper of Paris, L'Humanite, showing the corrupt relations between many French journals and the Russian Government. The documents were drawn from the achives of the Russian Foreign Office. They consisted largely of reports made by the Russian Financial Agent in Paris. He had been constituted a sort of paymaster of the forces in connection with the French Press. The whole makes up a shocking story of bribery or blackmall resorted to at the time of the flotation of successive Russian loans on the French market...
Later it was announced that Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov, a Russian, had been elected President of the Council of Commissars (Premier) in Lenin's place...
...been reflected in the U. S. by a revival of proposals for future trade with Russia. Hitherto Russia's purchases of American cotton have been made via Bremen through German middlemen. This made American goods more costly to Russia, and limited her credits here. Now the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, Inc. - a Manhattan agency of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate of Moscow-has been set up to deal directly with American exporters, and obtain credit directly from New York banks. In cotton this new arrangement makes another saving possible; cotton bought abroad is to some extent heavier and more...
...election of William G. Marvin, Manhattan lawyer, as President of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce has also called public attention to that body. Its board is composed of American bankers, manufacturers, lawyers. The Committee on Russian Trade, of which Mr. Marvin is chairman, will be amalgamated with the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, and its facilities taken over by the Chamber...
...Chamber has secured the support of "many important business and banking elements in the U. S. interested in trading with Russia," and "earnestly solicits the cooperation and support of all American busi- ness interests who desire the speedy reconstruction of American-Russian trade without political prejudice or partisanship...