Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beaten up by Kanarik and his friends, Mottke prepared his revenge. He told Mary to persuade Kanarik to flee with her, left the troupe himself, ambushed Kanarik, stabbed him. Then, armed with Kanarik's money and passport, he took Mary to Warsaw, where he became a power in the underworld. Mary caught the fancy of a commissar, but Mottke chafed under his stolen identity, longed to have his own name back. He fell in love with the innocent daughter of a brothel-keeper, sold his retinue of girls into white slavery in Argentina, became respectable. Before their marriage...
...Though passports of the sort which enable their holders to leave Russia are rarer than rubies in the Soviet Union, every Russian must carry at all times the sort of passport which confirms his right to live & work where he does live & work in Russia. Last week in the Soviet Union no other news was half so big as an announcement by the Moscow Government that before Jan. 14, 1936 every Soviet citizen must have his domestic passport renewed...
...last time this was done, the State forced some 600,000 Russians to move out of the great and fairly comfortable cities of Moscow and Leningrad by handing them new passports stating that they could live & work only on farms or in the smaller, pioneer cities (TIME, May 8, 1933). To make this mass passport process even harsher, Russians who had to surrender their old passports could not get new ones unless they rehearsed their entire life histories and proved that they were not enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Anyone who turned out to be such an "enemy...
...overjoyed to discover that although that Red claimed to have been born in New York City when he ran as the Communist candidate for Governor of California in 1934 (and got 45,000 votes), he swore he was born in Russia this year when he applied for a passport on which to go to Moscow for the Congress of the Comintern. Armed with this evidence, San Francisco's Captain Healy prepared to have Sam Darcy indicted for perjury...
...detractors in the U. S. When Carnera playfully suggested that he must have been drugged before the fight in which he was a brave loser to Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor to Fascist sport...