Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the bill reducing passport renewals to $2, original passports to $5 ; sent it to the President...
...domestic felicity among the middleaged, his efforts to be engaging in a homely, honest way are strangely and uncharacteristically saccharine. Owen Davis is said to have written the dialog for this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth. No, sir. You see, in the U. S. when somebody appears before us in person, we give him the benefit of the doubt, and take for granted that he was born. . . . My parents were Cherokee Indians. Of course, our people...
...Passed a bill reducing the cost of passports from $10 to $5 and extending a passport's life from two years...
Last month the Department of State did a record May business in passports. Plain was the fact that business depression had not been sufficient to retard foreign travel by U. S. citizens. In February, passport applications exceeded those for the same month the year before. Since then there has been a steady increase until last month more than 35,000 applications?15% above last year's May record?were received...
...travel the House of Representatives last week passed, and sent to the Senate a bill cutting the initial passport fee from $10 to $5 and, of more importance, extending a passport's life from two years to six (renewable biennially...