Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laughed. Friends told him it was no laughing matter, urged him to take the letter to Gestapo headquarters. He did so, found the Gestapo cool, suspicious. Presently another letter came, threatening him unless he met Gassner. He went to the U.S. consul, was advised to leave Germany. But his passport had been stolen. At last William Sebold wrote Gassner: "I accept your proposition 100 per cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon...
Although a college diploma is no passport to privilege, the 2,700,000 living U.S. alumni and alumnae (about 2% of the population) are influential out of proportion to their numbers. As a group they hold the best jobs, make the most money, live most comfortably. Last week their way of life was surveyed statistically for the first time on a national scale in a report (The U.S. College Graduate) by the Reader Research Department of TIME Inc. The survey sampled 12,728 graduates of 1,048 colleges and universities. Some findings: >By the time they are 40, three-quarters...
...Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge, who recently called all out-of-State professors in Georgian universities "foreigners," the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Ala. sent a fancy, gold-sealed, round-trip "passport" certifying him as "a free citizen . . . permitted to enter the State of Alabama...
...others into. Murphy's pajama pockets as the Zamzam passengers were lined up for registration and made to empty out their pockets. Murphy had burned his hands badly sliding down a rope, and Photographer Scherman asked whether he could sign for Murphy and remove his wallet and passport for him. The examining officer, a tall, smiling lieutenant who spoke perfect English, nodded. The films stayed in Murphy's pajama pockets -even while he was being interviewed by the raider captain...
...second, the State Department thought it had the answer, too, and was pondering effective diplomatic action against three unnamed German consular officials who had provided Werra with the phony Swiss passport on which he sailed from...