Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly half of Vienna's 25-member Anglo-American Press Association found it wise to get out of Vienna-or were bluntly ordered to leave. International News Service's Alfred Tyrnauer, an Austrian Jew, was arrested in the cable office while filing a story, his passport confiscated, his detention ordered; when the U. S. Legation took note, he was released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days...
...Kraus '41, star Freshman breast-stroker who was called to Germany last month by the death of his father, was unable to return to his native land because of a well-founded suspicion that his student passport would be revoked and he be forced to stay in Germany for compulsory military training...
...entourage quickly denied the "Tyrol is Free" rumor, also started half-hourly broadcasts warning Nazis significantly not to make unauthorized arrests or seizures of property. Nazi boys & girls at this time were swarming aboard railway trains at every stop, importantly demanding to be shown everyone's passport, but travelers who refused these Nazi moppets were not harmed, though fists were shaken in their faces...
When someone describing himself as "Mr. Weston, Under Secretary of State telephoned the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan last fortnight and asked that 50 blank passports be sent to him at a midtown hotel, agents of the Department of Justice followed the shipment. Well they might, for the Under Secretary of State is Mr. Sumner Welles. The trail led from the hotel to a bar, to a brush-headed young man named Guenther Gustave Rumrich. Mr. Rumrich-born in Chicago to Austrian parents 27 years ago and a deserter from the U. S. Army-was reported to have wanted...
...Citizen Rubens whether she was permitted to answer that question or not. All questions by Mr. Henderson intended to bring out the facts of her arrest and the charges on which she is being held went unanswered. Citizen Rubens said that she left the U. S. on a passport bearing her own name, was supplied en route by her "husband" with a bogus U. S. passport in another name visaed for the U. S. S. R. Last week there were even such rumors current as those that the "husband" may have been a woman dressed...