Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week few citizens beside the like of Robert Cuse, a naturalized Latvian of Jersey City, N. J., realized that there was no U. S. law to prevent them from selling things to help the Spanish kill each other...
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...
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...
...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 height, stocky, mustached. Out of sight though...
...down, Chase & Sanborn brought to its listeners over a coast-to-coast network, with commercial plugs by breathless Graham McNamee. An obvious "natural" for the mass audience, the Good Will Court was given approval by a parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting Co.'s officials convinced...