Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida, with his wife and "several young people," including his Armenian disciple, Dmitri Kouyoumdjian, to "start a new life in a new spirit. Won't you come . . . too?" he begged, "& be president of us?" But Bertie apparently wouldn't budge; and the British government refused Lawrence a passport. Disciple Kouyoumdjian was also a disappointment: he changed both his mind and his name, stayed on in England and became "Michael Arlen" of a bestseller called The Green...
...long-deferred North American tour (the U.S. refused him a visa until he got a non-subversive sponsor), the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had one more little run-in with authority (Canadian) at the Montreal airport. But it was only a "technical detail," about passport stamps, soon cleared up. His speech in Windsor, Ont. was briefly interrupted when a heckler loudly disagreed with the Dean's contention that free elections are held in Russia "all the time...
Still sniping at giveaway shows in his own field, pouch-eyed Radio Comic Fred Allen found time to fire a pot shot at a neighbor: "I haven't bothered much about television ... I think the men who used to take passport pictures are now the cameramen ... it seems to be nothing but radio fluoroscoped...
...soon in difficulties. He couldn't sell the family land-there was a depression in Poland, too. And at the end of a year he also discovered that 1) being a soldier had not made him a U.S. citizen, as he had supposed; 2) he had neither a passport nor a visa; and 3) his re-entry permit had expired. He could not get back...
...been battered by the war. He was broke; the records of his immigration case had vanished. Anna sent him clothes and money, and got a Manhattan lawyer, Polish-born Charles Czalczynski Carroll, to handle his case. When Carroll finally badgered the Polish foreign office into giving Adolf a passport, Anna sent him a $463 airline ticket to New York...