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Posts Tagged ‘US Food Administration’

1918

President Wilson delivers his “Fourteen Points” speech on January 8th, naming 14 points to be used as a guide for a peace settlement. The speech will do much to undermine German morale during the final months of the war. William B. Thompson, who was in Petrograd from July until November last, has made a personal contribution […]

1917

In January the Grace Russian Company was formed, the joint owners being W. R. Grace & Co. and the San Galli Trading Company of Petrograd. American International Corporation had a substantial investment in the Grace Russian Company and through Holbrook an interlocking directorship. Leon Trotsky wrote in his autobiography, My Life, “My only profession in New York was that of a revolutionary socialist.” Yet […]