Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Believing that Marriner had refused him a visa to return to the U. S., the Armenian emptied a revolver into the diplomat as he left his automobile in front of the U. S. Consulate five weeks ago. Actually, Marriner had granted the visa but the letter informing Karayan had not been delivered because of a change of address. Condemned to death after a court had judged him sane, Karayan was refused a last minute reprieve...
Another American had also gone to Syria, naturalized Citizen Mejardich Kara-yan who thought the climate would be good for his health. Mejardich Karayan changed his mind, decided to go back to the U. S. When he applied for a visa, Consul General James Theodore Marriner approved it, had it mailed to Mejardich
...traveling representatives (firms which maintain no offices in Mexico), the Mexican Government issued an order to its consuls all over the world: in addition to the previous 5% customs prepayment, let consuls collect a 3% income-tax prepayment, on the invoice value of every shipment granted a visa...
...great victory for the Earl of Derby, who has campaigned for years to get the $10 British visa fee down, was its recent revision-to $2 after April 1. The French visa, ordinarily $2.33, is reduced to 47? for the Paris Exposition Season this spring and summer, with 50% reduction to Exposition visitors of all French rail fares. Italy offers similar inducements and the recent devaluation of French francs, Belgian francs, Dutch gulden, Swiss francs and Italian lire make these ideal post-Coronation countries, cheaper today by some 20% to 40% than they were in 1936 and better bargains than...
...sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind the Soviet Plan. Piatakov, extending his confession into what became a lecture, told of alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof Field, being supplied with a forged German passport with a Norwegian visa, flying on to Oslo; conferring with Trotsky, and getting back to Russia without exciting the Ogpu's suspicion. This may seem possible if the thoroughness of Soviet, German and Norwegian secret police methods is not known, but in Moscow it was such an obvious cock-&-bull story that Prosecutor...