Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whiz in science and hopes some day to be a doctor. But all this apparently meant little to the South African government. The police first refused to give Stephen the usual "certificate of character" that most travelers carry. Then, in addition to the usual questioning that all Negro passport applicants must undergo, detectives subjected Stephen to an additional grilling on every topic, from why he wanted to go to the U.S. to what he thought was wrong with education at home. In spite of such obstacles, Father Huddleston and Stephen went ahead with their passport application. They posted the necessary...
...decision was made in the case of Polish-born U.S. Citizen Max Shachtman, 51, onetime friend and agent of Leon Trotsky, national chairman of a U.S. leftist faction: the anticapitalist, anti-Soviet Independent Socialist League. In 1953 Shachtman applied for a passport in order to get material for articles and lectures. During months of tilting with the State Department, he was granted an interview, refused a formal hearing before the Board of Passport Appeals and refused the passport itself. Reason: his league was on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations. When a U.S. District Court dismissed...
...judiciary has neither control nor review power" over the passport function of the State Department...
...matters not for what reason he refused appellant a passport...
...being arrested again, she replied confidently: "From the amount of scandal it caused through the rest of the world, I don't think they will do that again." Was she angry about the arrest? Oh no, she answered. "Injustices occur everywhere." If the State Department grants her a passport, said Journalist Strong, she expects to visit Red China as well as Russia...