Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week when, in Toronto, Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen arrested Szulc, Kuper and five other Polish Jews who had been routed to Canada by George from a D.P. camp in Germany. Charged with illegally entering Canada, all seven were jailed. The arrests brought the first news of a passport racket that has been in full swing for nearly a year, has kept Scotland Yard in a dither for weeks...
...Nazis. Author St. John scanned the horizon for opponents of New Yugoslavia, but they were as scarce as Tories in the Kremlin. The few he did find turned out to be selfish little rascals whose only aim was to get their confiscated property or obtain a U.S. passport...
...that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their own extinction. Contrast the trappers with Nat Wyeth, a shrewd New England merchant with big ideas. 'On paper Wyeth was approximating John Jacob Astor." Theory wouldn't work...
...Rush. At 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Foreign Minister German Vegara called Cunja to his office, accused him of Communist plotting, handed him his passport. Government police hustled him to Los Cerrillos airport, where a plane was warming up to take him to Argentina. While Cunja was being told off, detectives knocked at the Hotel Carrera suite of Dalibor Jakasa, secretary of the Yugoslav legation in Buenos Aires, who had been in Santiago for only a few days. Jakasa was booted...
...summer school last June and shortly turned up in Paris, disappeared last from a Washington, D.C. school but got bagged again. He entered a Hollywood hotel one midnight, settled down in the lobby when he could not pay in advance. When cops woke him, the Prince produced a passport as identification; but it was not his (he had borrowed it). He was briskly hauled off to the station house. Eventually delivered into the strong hands of an older brother, the student Prince had his pockets stuffed with extra socks, two pennies, and a $1.50 hunting knife, which he had taken...