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...year-old Irish peer. Reason for his visit's brevity: Fortnight ago a Paris pickpocket whisked a passport from the right hip pocket of his trousers. Threatened with Ellis Island detention, he roared: "I have no fear of the place. ... I hear they have some new murals...
...into and later sold was a firm named Prendergast Davies Co., Ltd. which then specialized in acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...
...Leftist fliers in Spain. The contract provided that Pilot Dahl's wages be paid outside of Spain directly to his bride, Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl, who used to appear with Crooner Rudy Vallee's band. After signing, Pilot Dahl was sent to Mexico, provided there with a passport showing him to be a Spaniard by the name of Hernandez Diaz. Bridegroom Dahl sailed for Spain and Bride Dahl settled down in a French hotel at Cannes where she registered as Senora Edithe Diaz...
Miss Boland had been visited by His Majesty's Vice Consul John Innes who assured her that so long as she retained and exhibited her British passport she would be safe. Just before Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...