Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule such as Eleanor Roosevelt can take. After tea at the palace, a chat with the two young Princesses, a state dinner with the Churchills and the Mountbattens, she stayed up until 2 a.m. talking with second son Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, now assigned to London. Next day the passport room at the American Embassy was cleared of desks and filing cases for a press conference. Mrs. Roosevelt called the conference to order like a ladies' club meeting, apologized for her slight deafness, charmed the 100 reporters with quick, unhesitating answers. Question : "What do you think of Anglo-American...
...flight Abstractionist Hans Arp had his passport to the U.S. ready, his tickets in hand, but postponed his going. He wasn't sure whether it would be worth while, since he wasn't guaranteed first-class passage...
...Firebrand Siqueiros walked out of jail, was given a passport and money. In Chile he was again arrested, again released. Back in Mexico the police still officially wanted Exile Siqueiros. The Mexican Government was meanwhile paying him handsomely for his Chilian...
...office "somewhere in the Yard." You don't have to march in time or anything like that: just be nice and don't try to pull anything tricky. Once you get to the office, your troubles are almost over. As you stand in line and await your educational passport, feel in your wallet. Of course you have ten dollars resting expectantly between the bill folds. There are three other pieces of green paper, worth approximately one dollar apiece, snuggled in beside it, but don't touch them: they are for your athletic locker. And don't worry about getting home...
President Roosevelt freed Earl Browder, former General Secretary of the C.P., from Atlanta penitentiary, after he had served 14 months of his four-year sentence for passport fraud. His release, explained the President, "would have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feelings which may exist" about Browder's having been persecuted for his political views. His Hitler-style mustache shaved off, thinner and greyer than when he started his term, the Kansas-born Communist leader hopped a train. Out of jail, out of a job, temporarily out of a cause, Browder went quietly home to Yonkers...