Word: visa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic were 22 luxury-liners jampacked with homing American tourists (see p. 40); in Europe every American consulate, ministry, embassy swarmed with visa-waving U. S. citizens keen for a sight of Staten Island; at Villefranche, France, floated the U. S. Navy's Squadron 40-T, (the light cruiser Trenton, old destroyers Badger and Paul Jones) their steam up to haul U. S. nationals to embarkation points...
...England, pale & frail after seven months in prison (to which Nazis sent him on a charge of sex perversion), Tennist Baron Gottfried von Cramm said that the U. S. had denied him a visa to compete at Forest Hills. Reason: U. S. law bans people convicted of a crime involving "moral turpitude...
Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a German Jew who, in order to escape from Germany, had lied about his money to Nazi officials...
...Cummings, whose department has prosecuted many a U. S. citizen for false income tax statements: "The alternatives open to the alien were to remain in Germany and be reduced to a state of penury and serfdom, or to seek another life in another land. ... I advise . . . granting him a visa...
Married. Brian Grover, 37, British engineer, and his wife, Elena, 36; for the second time; in London. Last November, when he wanted to rejoin his Russian bride, Grover was unable to get a Russian visa, flew into Russia without a permit, was jailed. Last fortnight he was let off with a fine of 1,500 rubles ($300), allowed to take his wife to England. The second marriage ceremony was necessary because the first was not recorded by a British consul...