Word: passport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week one Henry M. Blackmer, U. S. citizen residing in France, found himself lacking lines which, though not as intimate as a marriage license yet were of some importance to his wellbeing. For, the U. S. Government had succeeded in taking from him his U. S. passport, leaving Mr. Blackmer in the embarrassing predicament of a "person whose papers are not in order." Mr. Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy...
...Blackmer has retained counsel to recover his passport, arguing that he paid $10 for it and therefore it is his property in perpetuum. Experts on international law, however, considered that the right to revoke a passport is included in the Secretary of State's authority to "grant and issue passports and ... to refuse them at his discretion." During the World War numerous passports were withdrawn and revoked...
Half an hour later MM. Rosengolz and Vojkov were pacing up and down the platform deep in talk. Suddenly a youth accosted them. He was a high school student of Vilna . . . Boris Kovenko, he _ said. Would Soviet Minister Vojkov please grant him a passport to enter Russia? He had applied often at the Soviet Legation, but had been refused for no reason that he could understand. Would not the Soviet Minister grant his request...
...Free passport visas and special rebates by the governments of France, Belgium and Switzerland have been granted men on this tour...
...ruling divides border aliens into two classes-native and foreign-born. Native Canadians will be permitted continued commuting privilege upon paying a $10 passport fee ard $8 head tax. Foreignborn Canadians, even though naturalized Canadian citizens, are rated according to their country of birth, not their country of naturalization. They must secure passport visas from U. S. consuls in their native countries. The ruling approved by U. S. Secretary of Labor Davis goes into effect June 1; provides six months there after for persons affected to get necessary documents...