Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reports that when he applied for his visa in Toronto last spring he was closely questioned by U. S. consular authorities on his beliefs...
...LOUIS, Mo., Oct.--Glen Shortliffe, Canadiam professor and "liberal socialist," who was appointed last spring to the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, has been denied an American visa by immigration officials in Toronto, it was learned today, because he is considered "a person whose entry is deemed to be prejudicial to the public interests of the United States...
...July 27, Toronto vice consul Albert Stoffel replied to graham that no final decision had been made. Five days later, Chancellor Compton sent a telegram to FBI chief J. Edger Hoover, in another attempt to clear up Shortliffe's position...
...long as the authorities remain silent, these political beliefs can be taken as the basis for the exclusion order. One striking indication that this is true is Shortliffe's story of how he was sharply questioned last May in the consular office in Toronto. What did he think about Indo-China? Would he prefer De Gaulle or the Communists to rule France? Did he believe in the overthrow of government by force...
...Gold Trinkets. Kiner, who lives with his widowed mother in California in the offseason, spent three seasons in the minors (at Albany and Toronto), then went off to hunt enemy submarines as a Navy PBM pilot. In 1946, as a rookie with the Pirates, he led the National League in homers with 23. With some instruction from his roommate, Hank Greenberg (58 home runs with Detroit in 1938), he boosted his home-run production to 51 the following year-and his salary from $10,000 to $30,000. With that he could afford to buy his mother a new home...