[Ads-l] "wop" = "without papers/passport" (1971)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

> >
> > Also from 1971 is the related derivation "without passport."
> >
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> > Monroe (La.) News-Star, July 30, 1971, p. 6, col. 1
> > Caution-https://www.newspapers.com/image/32327198/
> > "Glad You Asked That!" (syndicated column by Hy Gardner) "Wop" reverts
> > to the turn of the century when millions of Calabrians and Sicilians
> > came off their ships holding a slip of paper with the name of the
> > foreman they had been assigned to. U.S. immigration officials
> > rubberstamped the papers "W.O.P." -- meaning without passport.
> > ---

The above also appears one day earlier, in the Miami FL _News_ p 18-D

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