Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third summons arrived August 4. This time we went to Interior's Passport Section. As my protectors and I arrived at the office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt...
...associate of Huston's, later bumped into Croves in San Antonio, Tex., and at Croves's urgent request lent him $100. The loan was repaid by check. Spota never learned who had signed the check. But he discovered that Croves had been traveling on a U.S. passport, and that the check had been sent from Acapulco...
Taking the Bread Away. Trouble comes in threes, say the gypsies-from the devil, his wife and their son. It was that way after World War I; the gypsies were beset by the passport,, the factory and hygiene (they called doctors the "makers of dead men"). Hungary introduced compulsory bathing for gypsies; in Moravia, they were shorn bald; in Soviet Russia, they were put to work in factories and on collective farms-their songs, complained the Communists, were too melancholy. "Astrologists and psychologists are taking away the bread from the mouths of our wives and mothers," complained the chairman...
...career girl before Look did. As a 16-year-old Bostonian with a gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were married (he for the third time, she for the second...
Eisler, an avowed Communist, has recently been convicted of passport violations and contempt of the Un-American Committee. He is now out on ball pending the outcome of his appeal...