Word: passport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Michael Karolyi, ex-Premier, ex-President of Hungary and now exile,* came to the U. S. from England a few weeks ago to attend at the bedside of his wife, who was ill of typhoid fever. It became known that in obtaining a visa for his passport, he had promised not to discuss political questions in public during his visit. Meanwhile, the U. S. Hungarian press began to attack him, but he could make no answer. Reporters questioned him and he only made reply: "By my agreement with the State Department, I may not receive reporters...
...received a cipher message from the Grand National Assembly at An gora, new capital of Turkey, instructing him to deport the Patriarch. At the early hour of 6:30 a.m., the police official called upon His All Holiness, apprised him of his imminent de parture, courteously saw him through passport technicalities and safely upon an ordinary train which forthwith chugged him to Salonika...
...worth ten times ten million good U. S. dollars. This short, broad man with a pug-dog face was accompanied by two sons, Rene and Onlino, two secretaries, two valets, one manager, one physician and 50 pieces of luggage. To the immigration men he handed a diplomatic passport...
...order, but the Government changed its mind. Handcuffed together, they were taken to a jail in Brooklyn and held in $10,000 bail each. The usual bail is $500. They and the two men charged with smuggling them in are to be prosecuted under the Immigration Act and the Passport Act. These provide, in case of conviction, for an extreme penalty of 20 years in jail, $10,000 fine and deportation when the sentence is completed. The Italians vary in age from 17 to 57 years...
...Ellis Island, N. Y., the Japanese team, en route from France to play Canada, was detained, Firpo-like, for passport discrepancies, released on parole telephonically from Washington...