Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons, irate Mrs. Tate implied that His Majesty's Government should not have let these three M. P.s go overseas during the present crisis, and she did not feel any better when it came out that Captain Cunningham-Reid announced as his reason for asking an exit permit that he was going to handle Heiress Doris Duke Cromwell's refugee British tots...
...remarks in the Sunday Dispatch: "In no conceivable circumstances should members be allowed for any personal reasons to leave this island when it is threatened with invasion-for that is not representative of the British people. It is only representative of the rat. If members apply for an exit permit, except for Government business, they should be forced to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.* Moreover, unless they return to their country in its hour of need, they should forfeit their [British] nationality...
...Exit Dietrich. Two days later Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Hay informed Hitler's slick director of Nazi intrigue in Mexico and Latin America, Arthur Dietrich, that he was no longer persona grata in Mexico, that his activities, pursued with arrogant disregard for the laws and privileges of his host country, were "prejudicial to Mexican interests." An investigation of Dietrich had revealed that his office served as a relay point for instructions from Berlin to Nazi agents in the U. S., as well as elsewhere in the Americas, including plenty of boring from within in Mexico. Awaiting further instructions...
Stahl had nothing to do but to hand him his walking papers when he flared up in the Penn game. Charley Spreyer made his exit less ceremoniously and for different reasons. He simply didn't have enough interest in baseball to warm the bench until June. He was definitely relegated to a substitute's role, and the question of staying out all spring was for him to decide. As for Lou Clay, he has only begun his pitching career at Harvard...
...German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...