Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tape. Adolf went to Poland in 1931. But without Anna he was soon in difficulties. He couldn't sell the family land-there was a depression in Poland, too. And at the end of a year he also discovered that 1) being a soldier had not made him a U.S. citizen, as he had supposed; 2) he had neither a passport nor a visa; and 3) his re-entry permit had expired. He could not get back...
...Anna hurried to Poland to rescue him. She failed. Undiscouraged, she came back to the U.S., got a job as a housekeeper for a federal judge. In 1937 she went to Poland again. This time she was a naturalized citizen with a citizen's rights. She had money. With the judge's help, she had even wangled a letter of introduction to U.S. consular officials from Secretary of State Cordell Hull. But she was overwhelmed by red tape all over again, came home without Adolf and with only three dollars in her pocket...
...Couple of Acres. Adolf had been battered by the war. He was broke; the records of his immigration case had vanished. Anna sent him clothes and money, and got a Manhattan lawyer, Polish-born Charles Czalczynski Carroll, to handle his case. When Carroll finally badgered the Polish foreign office into giving Adolf a passport, Anna sent him a $463 airline ticket to New York...
Last week, after 17 years, she finally got him, back again. Adolf still couldn't speak English, still looked bewildered. Beaming, Anna cried: "I'll have to work and save money and get him a couple of acres in the country, that's all. He likes fruit trees." Adolf beamed...
Communist Reporter Gregory Staktopoulos and his mother, Anna, were in jail. Communist Leader Adam Mouzenides, named as the trigger man, and one Evangelos Vasvanas were at large. According to the official version, the killing was plotted by the Cominform, executed by the Greek Communist Party in the hope that it could be blamed on rightists and used to discredit the Greek government in the eyes of the world...