Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bond, Werra stayed in the Westchester home of a German consular agent, was kept "under surveillance" by Department of Justice agents. Recently these hawkshaws, checking up, were told that the Baron had gone South on a hunting trip. Actually, he had sailed for Peru, on a Swiss passport, three weeks before. Red-faced, Attorney General Jackson closed the stable door with a bang. Hereafter, he said, escaped prisoners would be turned back at the border. He denounced German consular officials for conniving at Werra's escape. They chuckled. Since a military pilot's training costs $20,000, they...
...town wheeled the Nazi dive-bombers. Correspondent Brewer, guided by flames, trudged on alone with pack and typewriter toward the city. In the deserted, fire-drenched, shattered streets, stumbling through splintered glass, he was arrested by eight Comitadjis with shotguns and pistols. Unable to read, they concluded his passport was forged, his typewriter a portable radio transmitter, his extra boots final proof that he was a Nazi parachutist spy. One urged shooting him on the spot...
...Cecil Brown-thrice arrested on suspicion of spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...
...story itself is as simple as starvation, as insanely complicated as law. Neither man has any legal right to existence; both of them insist on existing anyhow. Josef Steiner is hard and adroit: by cheating at cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna...
...Pullman pillowcase (to thwart photographers), Earl Browder stepped off a train last week at Atlanta, Ga. He was shackled to two Negro prisoners, escorted by G-Men. His destination: the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta. The Kansas-born Communist leader and onetime Presidential candidate was going to prison for passport fraud. Sentence: four years. By good behavior he could get out in three years, four months...