Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixed Moslem-Hindu villages, preaching peace. Last week Gandhi planned a symbolic return. "My work is in Noakhali," he said. "Nobody will prevent me from going there." For Gandhi considered himself a citizen of both new Indian states. "I will go freely to all parts of India . . . without a passport." The question was, would other Indians be able to do the same...
...knows share his love of antiquity. For Mr. Mueller, tall and soft-spaken, is no newcomer to bibliopoly. In Vienna, where he lived until 1939, he worked in his father's university bookstore. After eight months spent at Buchenwald, he came to American on the strength of an American passport, and worked for a while as a butler in New York. Arriving in Cambridge, he persuaded Tutin, the bookseller, to buy the failing Schoenhof's and has run it ever since as a part-owner...
Flagstad had returned to Norway and her quisling husband after the occupation. The Norwegian Legation in Washington had refused to approve her return, but she went anyway, using her Norwegian passport, and traveling by way of Portugal, Spain and Berlin. She had never sung for the Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during...
Committee Investigator Robert E. Stripling asked him whether Dennis was his real name. That was quite irrelevant and incompetent, said Dennis. Had he ever taken out a passport in the name of Eugene Dennis? "Beside the point." How long had he been known as Dennis? "For a great, great many years." What name was he born with? "The color of my hair is grey, the color of my eyes is blue...
...used at least six aliases. As Frank Waldron he was arrested six times in five months during the stormy winter of 1929-30 in Los Angeles. Convicted of attempting to "rout" (a shade less serious than riot), he had jumped bail. At one time he had received a passport under the name of Paul Walsh...