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Most notorious ship in the world last Jan. 6 was a blunt-nosed little Spanish freighter named Mar Cantabrico. With $720,000 worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis...
...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 who, on the day Congress convened, obtained...
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...
...fine colonial home. There she entertained all the bigwigs she thought might help her to realize her political ambitions. Her lavish parties became common talk among Los Angeles newshawks, but they were never fortunate enough to attend, as Queen Helen always shunned publicity. Once they were able to report second-hand accounts of an elaborate bridge party she gave for a large group of ladies. The guests appeared wearing gaudy pajamas and blonde wigs if their hair had not been bleached as had their hostess's. Queen Helen outdid all of them by wearing black lace pajamas over white...
...more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought in the spring...