Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl Browder made no reply. But at week's end came news that he had applied to the State Department for a passport to Russia. No one knew for sure whether his purpose was to ask the Soviet Union for reinstatement as a Communist or to exploit it as a capitalist...
Latins, busily fashioning ways of attracting the tourist dollar, had two chief preoccupations: 1) lack of "first-class accommodations" (hotel rooms in Mexico City and Rio were as scarce as in New York); 2) irksome passport and visa requirements. Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala and Uruguay had made entry easy. Most other Latin American countries...
...faze Wall Street's Forrestal. There is a story that he once sent his two sons, aged six and eight, on a tour of Europe by themselves, and when they telephoned him in London that they were having passport trouble in Paris, casually told them to join him as soon as they had straightened it out. He makes a fetish of self-reliance...
...British, the presiding justice threw out the first two counts of the indictment, which were based on a presumption of British citizenship. But there was a third count: that Joyce behaved as a traitor in Germany between Sept. 18, 1939 and July 2, 1940, when his British passport expired. The prosecution argued that during this period, since he enjoyed the protection of a British passport, he owed allegiance to the British Crown, and that he had betrayed that allegiance...
Swamped with passport applications, the State Department issued a warning: travel to Europe will be restricted for some time to come. Specifically the Passport Division said...