Word: passport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubinstein arrived in the U.S. with a Portuguese passport which he had obtained in Shanghai for $2,000. He swore later that he was the bastard result of a premarital liaison between his mother, a Portuguese citizen (she was not) and his father, and was therefore entitled to citizenship under a Portuguese law protecting the love children of natives. Brother André promptly sued for defamation of their mother's character...
...drug-store in the village of Andelfingen until he left for Guatemala in 1899, and was indisputably Swiss. Under the laws of the little democracy, no descendant of a Swiss loses his right to citizenship unless he specifically renounces it - not even foreign Presidents.* Once he gets his Swiss passport, Arbenz will be able to bounce freely around the world, something that was impossible earlier, when he was under wraps in Mexican exile. Freedom to travel would be indispensable if he were planning a comeback - and, as he told reporters in Paris: "In politics, only the dead...
...Spain's ragged roads to the Palacio de las Cabezas, manor house of a 100,000-acre ranch run by the Count of Ruiseñada. There, in well-barricaded privacy, Franco sat down to lunch with Pretender Don Juan (who was allowed back into Spain on a passport describing him as Count of Barcelona). It was their first meeting in six years, and Juan's first visit to Spain since the Civil War, 18 years...
...assistant counsel to Clarence Darrow, he defended John Thomas Scopes in Tennessee, and he helped Samuel Leibowitz defend the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama. When "Prince" Mike Romanoff got into passport difficulties and when William Randolph Hearst had his private telegrams subpoenaed by a congressional committee, Hays came to their...
Whatever the reasoning that went on in the minds of the Russians that night, I am glad to hear that TIME helped serve as a passport to freedom...