Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspecting that he had played too many love sets with the Nazis during the war, the French government refused a visa to Germany's aging (42) Court Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, scheduled to play in the French International Tennis matches which started in Paris this week...
...informed officials that the Russians were on the way at last by air from Minsk. But when weighing-in time came, there were no Russians in sight. They were scratched from the lists, and the bouts went on without them (and without the satellite Rumanians, who claimed last-minute visa trouble...
Feeling that his entry would be against the best interests of the country, the State Department announced that it had refused a U.S. visa to France's jaunty Maurice Chevalier, a signer of the Communist-inspired Stockholm "peace" petition, a member of some Communist-front groups. Chevalier, now headed for Canada, has appealed the decision to the U.S. Attorney General...
...pace by World War I and the Bolshevik revolution. His first tour of England fell apart before it got started when his English manager dropped dead. Once, while his piano was taken off to Rio de Janeiro, he was left standing on the dock for lack of a visa. Two years after his sensational U.S. debut, a New Yorker critic wrote: "It wouldn't be hard to make a catalogue of Mr. Barere's accomplishments, but he doesn't need a catalogue. He needs an audience...
...told the story. First, its investigator discovered that four of the consulate's employees were homosexuals. He learned next that one of them, a chubby young (25) vice consul named John Wayne Clark Williams, was also running an illegal racket on the side-accepting bribes from Chinese seeking visas to enter the U.S. Williams, a college graduate (North Carolina) who served in the Army for three years during World War II, reportedly confessed that in his 30 months as visa clerk for the Hong Kong consulate, he had collected about $10,000 in bribes in return for visas, usually...