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...fatherland, the unsullied name of Mexico," President Manuel Avila Camacho asked and won approval of a declaration that a state of war has existed since May 22, the expiration date of a Foreign Office protest demanding "complete satisfaction" and a guarantee of reparations for the sinking of the Mexican freighter Potrero del Llano, torpedoed off the Florida coast. The Chamber of Deputies approved, 183-to-0, the Senate 53-to-0 (with five members absent...
Kroener had been a butcher in Germany before he came to the U.S. and got a job as a kennel man with Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, who collected pets. Buddy belonged to Mrs. Lintz; she had bought the little creature from the captain of an African freighter. But Buddy belonged spiritually to Kroener. He helped nurse the little gorilla back to health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage...
...after he arrived home on a Norwegian freighter a friend called, asked: "Do you remember Annalee Whitmore?" At Stanford she had worked on the college paper with him. Now a scriptwriter for MGM, she wanted help to get a passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced one day to his mother: "That girl's damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place...
...Even intangibles are bootlegged. Two New York freight forwarders now face Maritime Commission music because they reserved cargo space on an American Export Lines freighter at the official rate of $50 a ton, sublet it to desperate shippers...
...approaching submarine, watched it fire two torpedoes in full view of the crew. A rescued seaman from the second ship had to swim two and a half miles, diving under patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried to flee, the Swede almost ran the lifeboat down...