Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Boland had been visited by His Majesty's Vice Consul John Innes who assured her that so long as she retained and exhibited her British passport she would be safe. Just before Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...
Last week a spectacled German bachelor, visiting England on a passport bearing the name "Ian Anderson," received word that he had been appointed a professor at Harvard University. "Ian Anderson," whose friends know him as Germany's onetime (1930-32) Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, was as glad as any exiled German scholar to get work...
Happening to be named Edward Windsor and having nice eyes set in haggard sockets, a nonchalant young Briton some weeks ago put up at a flattered Paris hotel, showed his passport and began running up right royal bills. Presently sued for "fraud" by the proprietors, the bright Briton was cleared of this aspersion on the name of Windsor last week when the strict French court ruled there had been no fraud "because Mr. Windsor never told or gave the hotel management to understand he was the former King...
...number was swarthy, stocky Fortunate Manure, a Sicilian. In the United States Fortunato Manure did not do so badly. He raised a family of seven children, worked as a laborer at various jobs, was able to act enough like a U. S. citizen to get himself a U. S. passport, but the Depression of 1929 left him without a job. One son found work in Philadelphia, the rest of the Manure family in 1931 joined thousands of other disillusioned immigrants and trekked back to Italy. In 1935 Fortunato Manure was called up by the Fascist Government, popped into a uniform...
...joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind the Soviet Plan. Piatakov, extending his confession into what became a lecture, told of alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof Field, being supplied with a forged German passport with a Norwegian visa, flying on to Oslo; conferring with Trotsky, and getting back to Russia without exciting the Ogpu's suspicion. This may seem possible if the thoroughness of Soviet, German and Norwegian secret police methods is not known, but in Moscow it was such an obvious cock...