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Many a citizen wondered what was happening to Jimmy Byrnes's midnight curfew. Thousands guessed that the 12 o'clock closing order, already sidetracked in New York by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, would soon be completely derailed. But the mayor's attempt to keep Manhattan bars and night...
Next day War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt announced (speaking for Byrnes) that he had been authorized to exempt restaurants from the curfew, provided they sold no liquor, offered no entertainment after midnight.
Puzzled citizens began to wonder if the curfew were being eased out of existence, were still a little puzzled after another Byrnes announcement: "The government does not intend to withdraw its request for a midnight curfew."
To help solve the dilemma, "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes had appointed a committee, headed by FEAdministrator Leo Crowley. It found no immediate solution. Hopkins & Co. cried that the committee was packed in favor of the Army.
Since Moses. Although Britons are notoriously creatures of habit who love to eat the food to which they are accustomed, however dull it may be, Lord Woolton was not destined to attain the unpopularity of Leon Henderson or Jimmy Byrnes. He had not lived at University Settlement, Liverpool, without learning...