Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Mrs. Janet Estes filed suit for divorce because her husband neglected her for picture postcards. To fill a gap in his series, he went to Elkhart, Ind., remained there a year. Last fortnight he wrote home for his passport, said he was going to Russia "to round out a memorable monument of postcards...
...best he could the young priest stowed them away, slipped with pounding heart out of the Vatican, penetrated Italy, rode demurely in a hot and rattling railway car for more than 24 hours, then faced grim but unsuspicious Fascist frontier guards who gave one scowling look at his Papal passport, let him go. After that it was easy for the young priest to carry his precious documents to their destination. Once in Paris, he turned them over to Catholic superiors who nodded approval when the young priest begged, "Please do not let the newspapers know my name...
...press of Italy was unanimous in its condemnation of Toscanini. The maestro's friends insisted that the attack was a carefully-planned ambush. A cautious French press made no mention of the incident. Carabinieri. soldiers, detectives watched the Toscanini house in Milan; he was a prisoner; his passport was withdrawn; he would be disciplined, it was said, by Dictator Mussolini. Last week his passport was returned and it was reported that he had been guarded only because civil authorities feared further incidents...
...International Colonial & Overseas Exposition, at Vincennes, France. No passport, no visa (merely certificate of identification from resident French consul) required of entering visitors...
...citizens are in high favor at Moscow as potential workers for a Soviet revolution in the U. S. Such a Negro is William Lorenzo Patterson, frankly a Communist, who after three and one-half years in Russia returned to the U. S. last week on his valid U. S. passport and began at once to preach Communist doctrines which appeared in front-page position before the 41,000 Negro readers of Harlem's Amsterdam News. Communist Patterson is a member of the New York Bar, a former law partner of two Negroes who are now Assistant District Attorneys...