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...domestic felicity among the middleaged, his efforts to be engaging in a homely, honest way are strangely and uncharacteristically saccharine. Owen Davis is said to have written the dialog for this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth. No, sir. You see, in the U. S. when somebody appears before us in person, we give him the benefit of the doubt, and take for granted that he was born. . . . My parents were Cherokee Indians. Of course, our people...
...Passed a bill reducing the cost of passports from $10 to $5 and extending a passport's life from two years...
Last month the Department of State did a record May business in passports. Plain was the fact that business depression had not been sufficient to retard foreign travel by U. S. citizens. In February, passport applications exceeded those for the same month the year before. Since then there has been a steady increase until last month more than 35,000 applications?15% above last year's May record?were received...
...travel the House of Representatives last week passed, and sent to the Senate a bill cutting the initial passport fee from $10 to $5 and, of more importance, extending a passport's life from two years to six (renewable biennially...
...unreasonable expectation of getting something worth while in return, Ten years ago it was a matter of some disquiet. Youth seemed to be attracted into the colleges less by the delights of pure learning than by the fact that the diploma appeared to be a golden passport to the amenities of the white-collar life and to social if not financial advancement. How was it possible to prevent their being disappointed? It was obvious that neither the History of Art nor Biology B offered a particularly sound training for the acquisition of "success," and dreadful stories about Ph.D.'s found...