Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolution found Molotov hiding in Petrograd, with a faked passport. He led the armed workers into the streets, seized power, organized a Soviet regime. Impressed, Lenin sent him scooting all over hungry and devastated Russia to organize and purge...
...State Department had refused Big Joe a passport to see how torpedoed seamen fare in Britain, Russia, North Africa. Curran shipped as a seaman, disappeared into wartime censorship. The New York World-Telegram's Westbrook Pegler, longtime Curran-comber (TIME, Aug. 30), attacked this "vacation," asked why the N.M.U. chief was not drafted...
...Toscanini resigned as director. Two years later, at a concert in Bologna, the peppery little maestro again refused to conduct Giovinezza, saying publicly that, in his opinion, it was not music at all. After the concert a Fascist mob beat him up, Fascist authorities temporarily confiscated his passport, and the Fascist Party surrounded his Milan home with carabinieri. He was under incessant attack in the Fascist press...
Seaman Joe, who wants to see battlefront ports in England, Africa and Russia, had waited for two months for a passport. While his application lay in the doldrums, he hopped a boat for his first job as a working seaman since...
...struggle to sustain morale got too much for Hélion. From the ship's black market, where a few intrepid souls stole, bought and sold civilian garments for purposes of escape, Hélion bought a complete outfit. He obtained the forged leave-card and passport of a Belgian worker which were to take him successfully all the way across Germany into then unoccupied France...