Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreasonable expectation of getting something worth while in return, Ten years ago it was a matter of some disquiet. Youth seemed to be attracted into the colleges less by the delights of pure learning than by the fact that the diploma appeared to be a golden passport to the amenities of the white-collar life and to social if not financial advancement. How was it possible to prevent their being disappointed? It was obvious that neither the History of Art nor Biology B offered a particularly sound training for the acquisition of "success," and dreadful stories about Ph.D.'s found...
...farmer, Trotsky early became class-conscious. Arrested for revolutionary activities at 19, he spent two years in prison, then was exiled to Siberia. There he married Alexandra Lvovna, revolutionary coworker, because the work that we were doing bound us closely together." Two years later Trotsky escaped. On the fake passport friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference of opinion and one serious argument: Trotsky left Lenin for the Mensheviki...
...last week occurred what might possibly be the next thing to a trip for the Senator when his wife, Mamie McConnell Borah, sailed out of New York aboard the S. S. Mauretania for her first trip to Europe. A mix-up about her passport caused a flurry at the pier until the French Consul General discovered that her husband was none other than the great Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Borah friends in Washington speculated on what influence, if any, Mrs. Borah's excursion might have on the foreign policy of the U. S. Would she return with such...
...being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government has decided to make no reduction in the $10 fee collected for rubber stamping (visaing) the passport of each U. S. citizen bound for Great Britain...
Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, forgot her passport while traveling with Mrs. Morrow between London and Paris. Last-minute telephone and telegraph messages to the Paris Embassy and the French Foreign Office enabled them to continue their trip...