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Refutation. Prime Amtorg witness was Peter A. Bogdanov, thickset, blue-eyed, bearded Amtorg board chairman. He explained the history of Amtorg? founded in 1924 as a U. S. concern owned by the Soviet Bank of Foreign Trade. In six years, he said, it has bought $580,000,000 worth of U. S. goods for export to Russia, secured $30,000,000 in credits from U. S. banks. Its trade had declined lately as a result of world outbursts against the Soviet's anti-religious program (TIME, March 10) and attacks upon it by Mr. Whalen. A Russian revolutionary since...
...Burgundian accent. Onetime barnstormer, dancer, Colette draws, writes music, has recently written a ballet for Composer Maurice Ravel. She knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...
Deep-voiced Andy is Charles J. Correll, 40. He is shorter than his partner, thickset, pompadoured. He was born in Peoria, Ill., sold newspapers, worked with his family's construction company, played the piano in a cinemahouse at night. He won local dancing contests, sang in minstrel shows, acted in neighborhood dramas. Finally he too became a professional coach. One of his assignments was in Durham, N. C., where he had to teach the business to a neophyte named Freeman F. Gosden. For six years they staged musical shows, plays and circuses for such organizations as the Elks, American...
...default. But the Wall Street crash has raised doubts as to whether U. S. investors can be depended on to hold the German bag-full or empty as the future will reveal. Last week lean, jocular Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of The First National Bank of Chicago, and quiet, thickset Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of First National Bank of New York, were on the Atlantic en route to tell the statesmen at The Hague what can be expected from U. S. investors. Mr. Reynolds was chairman of the Baden-Baden bankers committee which drew up the charter and statutes...
Early in December a pretentious restaurant called the Roman Gardens in the borough of The Bronx, New York City, was the scene of a bounteous banquet. Guest of honor was handsome, thickset City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, who had just returned from a vacation. With this vigorous representative of the Law there sat down seven men whose faces appear in Manhattan's rogues' gallery. There were also several other suspicious persons, a group of local businessmen, a police detective, and a swart gentleman called Ciro Terranova alias Morello, commonly known as the "Artichoke King,"* and believed to possess...