In New York City, financiers buzzed excitedly over a luncheon given by Vice President Reeve Schley of the Chase National Bank to the representatives of the Ail-American Textile Syndicate and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, the latter being the Russian Soviet Union's agency in the U. S.
The luncheon in question was a somewhat unique affair. The invitation list included, not the usual long-haired admirers of communism but some of the most eminent, not to say hardboiled, bankers of Wall Street. The luncheon was held in the spacious Bankers' Club behind closed doors.
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