Word: visa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, a grateful U.S. War Department decorated Joey with the Medal of Freedom with silver palm, the third highest award that can be given to a foreign civilian. Later the Justice Department waived immigration restrictions, gave her a temporary visa to enter the U.S. for treatment at the Carville, La. leprosarium. After TIME reported the story of her wartime exploits and her arrival at Carville (TIME, July 19, 1948), more than 4,000 readers wrote letters expressing their sympathy and interest in Joey's future...
...recent weeks that hope has been shadowed by the possibility of deportation, since her temporary visa has expired. Last year two special bills to grant her citizenship died in committee when the 82nd Congress adjourned. And a fortnight ago, an Immigration Service official ordered Joey to leave the country, but gave her the privilege of voluntary departure. Last week. however, Joey's future was brightened again. Immigration officials in Washington promised that no action toward her deportation would be taken for several months. That will give Congress time to consider another private bill granting her permanent U.S. residence...
...Brien's peccadilloes could discourage the kindly agents of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees or the National Catholic Welfare Council from busily working for his release. "He's had his punishment," said an officer of the N.C.W.C. as O'Brien at last got a visa from broad-minded Brazil. "Now he's getting another chance...
...Berlin, United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney expects to leave for Moscow next month on a Russian visa. Correspondent John Gordon of Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express left this week for Moscow. Other agencies and newspapers also have been told unofficially that their correspondents are likely to get visas for Russia...
...obtain a visa, an applicant must list this associations for the last fifteen years, often explain his political views and detail his opinions on issued like Korea. The answers are often unacceptable to the U.S. Security officers, but any softening of personal beliefs whether by way of soft soap or of an honest attempt to state his beliefs fully is considered perjury...