Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State's population 1%. Jewish children were driven from public schools. In Bavaria, Baden, Thuringia, Württemberg, Hesse, the Nazis forbade kosher slaughtering of meat. The National Government forbade any Jew to leave Germany without special police permission stamped on his passport. Chief Engineer Walter Schaeffer of the Rundfunk Wireless Organization was dismissed from his post, committed suicide. Albert Einstein's bank deposits ($5,955 in securities, $1,191 in cash) were confiscated. The Professor announced that he would renounce his German citizenship...
Super-drastic, the Moscow Soviet's decree provided last week that the person responsible for every room (two families often live in one) must have available at all times a "sanitary passport." Inspectors will stamp this passport, certifying that the room has been aired as per decree. They will also note "improvements," such as greater tidiness, fewer bedbugs. If no improvements are noted after a specified period, luckless roomers will be fined...
...DEVIL'S PASSPORT-Gordon Young -Century ($2). Hard Man Everhard oils his guns, smashes a Paris gang for Uncle Sam's Secret Service...
Sentenced. Film Actor Duncan Renaldo, 28 (Trader Horn, Bridge of San Luis Rey) ; to two years in Federal Penitentiary and $2,000 fine for falsifying his passport, swearing to it; in Los Angeles. Renaldo claimed Camden (N. J.) birth, the U. S. showed "overwhelming" evidence of Rumanian birth, planned deportation proceedings...
Last week's legend was that without passport or ticket he had sailed out of Cherbourg into Manhattan on the North...