Word: passport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likewise there was delay in the U. S. Department of Labor in deporting another Mexican, General Francisco Coss, who is alleged to have overstayed his passport. General Coss was formerly Colonel Torres' superior officer, and it was feared that, in spite of assurances from the Mexican Government, Coss might also face a firing squad for "train robbery...
Notable anti-Fascist expatriates affected by the law: 1) Former Premier Nitti, who fled from Italy without a passport two years ago, and is supposed to be financing the anti-Fascist journal, Corriere d'ltalia, now published in France. 2) Professor Salyemini, Florentine historian and philosopher, now delivering anti-Fascist lectures in London, "because I feel safer with the waves of the Channel between me and Fascismo." 3) Former Editor Nenni of the suppressed Italian Socialist newspaper, Avanti, once edited by Premier Mussolini in his Socialist days...
Secretary Drummond replied vaguely but courteously to M. Tchitcherin, bided the League's time. He despatched invitations to League states and to the U. S., Germany, Turkey, etc., requesting them to send representatives to a League of Nations Passport Conference to be held at Geneva on May 12. He benignly countenanced the formation by four of his U. S. subordinates of "The League of Nations Post of the American Legion, which is to link the greatest peace agency in the world with one of the greatest of fighting-veteran agencies." He helped to make comfortable twelve famed international lawyers...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, a petition was filed for a writ of mandamus to compel Secretary of State Kellogg and Donald F. Bigelow, American Consul at Paris, to issue to Countess Karolyi, wife of the onetime President of Hungary and alleged Red, a visa to her passport in order to visit the U. S. Thus did the Countess through her attorneys set out to gain by force of law what Secretary Kellogg denied her in the name of the law (TIME, Nov. 2, CABINET...
After several embarrassing hours explaining the deficiencies in his passport, José R. Capablanca came ashore last week from the Leviathan. The hours had been made even more harassing by the persistence of news-writers. Since the Moscow chess tournament TIME, Dec. 7) the market for chess news has developed rapidly. In particular the persistent writers wanted to know "Why?" Why had Capablanca-born with chess strategy "engraved by dry point upon his infant brain"-been defeated by two Russian "unknowns"? He who had declared "Chess-it is too simple" -why had he been driven to a draw by Lasker...