Word: passport
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...YORK--Earl Browder, Communist leader convicted of passport fraud, ran a poor third in a by-election for representative of the 14th Congressional District, returns showed tonight...
...Communist Earl Browder, out on $7,500 bail from a four-year jail sentence (now pending appeal) for fraudulent use of a passport, filed his name as Communist candidate for U. S. Congressman from the 14th New York District...
...trio of reformed Comrades (including an oldtime Soviet gumshoe artist, Nicholas Dozenberg) testified that Comrade Browder had forged names to three U. S. passports since 1921. Each of these offenses (as Comrade Browder admitted) occurred more than seven years ago, hence could not be directly prosecuted. So the Government got at Earl Browder indirectly, showing that, when he applied for a later passport in his own name, he denied ever having had a passport before...
...government considered Browder a criminal, why did they dig up a charge of passport violation--a charge which is almost a stranger to the courts of law? The question, though a moral one, stands out like a sore thumb. To prove that Browder was treated like any other American citizen, the government will now have to convict all the evaders of passport laws--and there are plenty. It cannot let other offenders pass unnoticed, and still claim that Browder was not a marked...
...worry about the type of charge against Browder, the public should be concerned with the chance of such weak accusations against other radicals. To accuse Fritz Kuhn of embezzlement is one thing: thousands of other men have received the same sentence. But to pull a rarely known charge of passport evasion out of the hat is a far more serious matter. It proves that Browder was not treated like any other citizen, that the government was using every trick and cunning to scalp the big Red Chief...