Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after 6:30 a. m. the Japanese sentries saw a motor car flying the U. S. flag and bearing the emblem of U. S. Consul General Myrl S. Myers drive up to the station. Out stepped a slender, well-dressed U. S. citizen. He showed a U. S. diplomatic passport proclaiming him to be Culver Bryant Chamberlain, newly appointed U. S. Consul at Harbin. Because he speaks no Japanese, speaks perfect Chinese, knows that most Japanese know a little Chinese, Consul Chamberlain addressed the Japanese sentry in Chinese, promptly received a blow in the face...
Being a Jewess, she is unable to secure a passport. Instead, she secures a prostitute's license. When she arrives at the jail where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil...
Chico impersonates a tough Italian, Zeppo makes friends with a pretty girl. Presently the boat docks and the Marx Brothers are faced with the problem of getting off without passports. This they try and fail to do by singing like Maurice Chevalier. Harpo, most furious at having his queer purposes interrupted, leaps on the desk of a passport inspector. Grinning wildly, he tears up thousands of important papers, stamps the pate of the chief passport inspector with a rubber stamp. The Marxes go to a party. They have contracted simultaneous alliances with two rival gangsters aboard ship. At the party...
Panama Bay. Then he went to U. S. Minister Roy Tasco Davis, had a diplomatic passport made out for himself & fish, with pictures of all three. The passport requested that "all skeptics into whose hands these presents shall come give full credence to the tales Senor Richey may tell. . . ." Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post went to visit on a ranch west of Fort Collins, Col. With his host and another friend he wandered along the Cache Poudre River. Publisher Bonfils saw a pool of rainbow trout. "Try 'em if you like," said his host, "but they...
Last September President Hoover turned down the spigot on U. S. immigra- tion to conserve U. S. jobs for U. S. residents. Consuls were instructed to refuse passport visas to aliens who on arrival were likely to become public charges. If a would-be immigrant boasted of work awaiting him in the U. S., he was barred under the contract labor provision of the Immigration code. As a result of the President's orders, the Department of Labor last week announced that immigration for fiscal 1931 had dwindled to a trickle below the 100.000 mark for the first time...