Word: cuse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accidents were not lacking last week when the first skirmish of the neutrality war of 1937 was fought. Arrayed on one side was 1) Robert Cuse, naturalized Latvian of Jersey City who had forced the State Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley...
Thus the nation was able to pursue its policy of keeping hands off and playing square in the Spanish crisis. But Mr. Cuse of Jersey City is reported to be the biggest dealer in second-hand aircraft and plane parts in the U. S. Mr. Cuse's obscure but active Vimalert Co. Ltd. has been reconditioning and selling planes and parts here & there-including, through Amtorg, the U. S. S. R.-for the past 15 years. Mr. Cuse is listed with the State Department as a salesman of everything lethal from a bomb to a battleship. When Chief Green...
...Spanish Loyalist Government was clearly getting no bargain. Most important items were 18 sporting and commercial airplanes which Mr. Cuse had already gathered and was knocking down for shipment at North Beach, L. I. airport. The ships, perhaps of greater value to souvenir hunters than military flyers, included such famed oldsters as Laura Ingall's Lockheed Orion, Powell Crosley's Northrup, seven discarded American Airlines Vultees and Harry Richman's Lady Peace. Most of the rest of the Vimalert shipment consisted of 411 motors and enough parts to make 150 more. All of the disassembled stuff...
North Dakota's long-nosed Nye, whose defunct Munitions Investigating Committee fostered the Neutrality Act, talked of a new committee to investigate Jersey City's Cuse. "Such an inquiry," added this Senator, "should cover more than this Vimalert affair. We ought to find out how much material other Americans have been sending to the Fascists as well as to the Loyalists in Spain."- Most armorers agree that in spite of the Arms & Munitions Control Office, small shipments of war material have constantly seeped illegally...
...quite worked. Among those Washington diplomats who received these regrets most graciously were Spain's de los Rios and Russia's Troyanovsky, whose underlings were vigorously denying that Vimalert nowadays has any further dealings with Amtorg. Meantime, nobody had actually set eyes on mysterious Mr. Cuse, the cause of all the commotion. At his Jersey City apartment, where he has a reputation for shyness and big tips, no reporter was permitted to talk to Mr. Cuse, his wife, ten-year-old son or maid. Photographers had to be content with his physical description given by apartment attendants: medium...