Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...known whether Babcock took out a passport prior to his mysterious departure from Harvard. Before leaving he handed in his resignation to University officials...
University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between...
...German school when Poultney's father was U. S. Minister to France. No war could break their friendship, which has extended to their families (see cut), and every year Oldster Bigelow goes to visit Oldster Hohenzollern at Doom. Last week, after having trouble getting a passport ("I told President Roosevelt I would ha'nt him"), Poultney Bigelow sailed from Manhattan. Before sailing he gave the press some quotes from a letter of the former Kaiser, explaining discreetly that he was not authorized to do so but was indiscreetly taking the chance. Wrote Wilhelm von Hohenzollern...
...France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...
...Americas, tripled land values on its river-washed Bund (the International Settlement's downtown) in seven years. Last year, its suburbs full of Japanese soldiers, Shanghai started another and less healthy boom, still booming. Factories, upcountry traders, panicky Chinese moved into the International Settlement for safety. Since no passport control blocks entry to the Settlement, refugees from all the world's political hotspots fled there-Czechs, Poles, German and Austrian Jews. Country View Apartments, aptly named when built before the Japanese invasion, now look on rows of smoking chimneys. The Chinese dollar, worth 30 American cents...