Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel decided to honor him with the first visa ever granted to a non-Jewish German tourist. But when the news got out, there were mutterings from unforgiving Jewish extremists, so the Israeli government told Lüth to come incognito, if at all. and fibbed to the press that his trip had been canceled. Not until his trip was over and he was back home in Hamburg last week did the story of the "traveler to Cyprus" come out. "Israel has been defiled," cried the jingoist daily Herut, but other Israelis found the situation wryly humorous. "When the Germans...
...State Department recently refused to renew the visa of Reuel Mugo Gatheru of Kenya, East Africa, who is now a junior at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. The refusal may have been a result of pressure from the British government, Phillipe Villers '55, political-action chairman of the HLU said last night...
Villers said that if there was British pressure not to renew the visa, it was probably the result of racial feeling in East Africa...
...appointment and came to New York, but was told there was no job at the time, and that he would need a visa to work in the U.S. anyway. He went home to apply for a visa. While waiting, he went to work in a steel mill, found it monotonous, and got another job as a restaurant dishwasher near the American consulate, where he could keep a close check on the progress of his visa...
Hood got his visa and came back to New York early in January 1949, a few days early for his next appointment. He busied himself making up a list of "the right people to see" about jobs at various newspapers, radio stations, etc., including their phone numbers, addresses and office room numbers, just in case. As it turned out, he never had to use the list. Impressed by his determination and his businesslike manner, Darling hired him as a mail-room messenger. Hood's first assignment was as a courier, bringing pictures of Harry Truman's inauguration from...