Word: passport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hester, not Lydia, who swept into New York Federal Court last week, put up $7,500 in Government bonds and cash to bail out a rumpled, disgruntled ex-candidate for President, Nicholas Dozenberg, alias George Morris, better known as Earl Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...
That the Justice Department was seeking to uncover a passport factory allegedly operated by and for Communists was indicated at week's end by the activity of Federal agents, who continued issuing subpoenas to Communist leaders and their friends to appear before the Grand Jury. More big names was the FBI promise...
...Governor of North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...
...Have you ever traveled under a false passport...
Next day Earl Browder was indicted by a Manhattan Federal Grand Jury on two counts, charged with false swearing in 1937-38 passport applications. Maximum penalty on conviction: Five years in prison, $2,000 fine, on each count. Tears of anger and chagrin in his eyes, he pleaded not guilty, was held in $7,500 bail, as the Grand Jury dug into still more evidence of Communist travel habits. Possible was the bagging by Frank Murphy of such Reds as Executive Committeeman Max Bedacht, Publisher Alexander Trachtenberg. And no one could reasonably complain that prosecution for criminal fraud endangers...