Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France, which expelled Mr. Hearst as an undesirable alien three years ago, is not on his passport. Said he: "They don't particularly want me. That is the impression I one time got." Publisher Hearst glories in his quarrel with France, wears his exile like a decoration...
...pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement." Is this not an erroneous statement and is it not true that the Russian trade treaty was abrogated because of Russia's refusal to recognize the passport rights of American citizens? The situation came to an issue because American citizens of Jewish faith had their passport privileges negated particularly because of that Jewish faith...
...first transatlantic trip, 11-year-old Prince Varanand of Siam enjoyed his first taste of spaghetti so much that he overate and was ill. Thereafter he continued to worry his fellow passengers by repeatedly stuffing spaghetti and losing it until he landed in Manhattan. Traveling on a diplomatic passport, he entrained for Washington, where he will go to school...
...bureau of customs to prevent smuggling, a bureau of narcotics to combat dope peddlers. Its income tax intelligence unit ferrets out tax evaders. There are special agents in the Department of Agriculture to investigate violations of the Pure Food & Drugs Act, in the State Department to trace passport frauds, in the Interior Department to detect crimes committed on Indian reservations, in the Interstate Commerce Commission to nab freight rate rebaters and in the Federal Trade Commission to prevent unfair trade practices...
...news, tears filled her expressive eyes. Waving her Greek passport at the Turkish immigration officers she demanded to go ashore to Insull's aid. Her passport did not have a Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin...