Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sports that might be affected by a continued. Yale crackdown on out-of-season events are fall baseball, spring basketball, and crew. Moreover, several Yale teams have taken summer tours to Carribean nations in the past few years...
Detectives who ordered the crackdown explained they did not plan to extend it to the more expensive hard-cover version of books. They said they are concentrating on the cheap editions because it is the one that is likely to be read by children...
City Councillor Edward A. Sullivan yesterday demanded action on what he termed "the deplorable parking situation around Harvard." Meanwhile Acting Chief Patrick J. McCarthy last night ended rumors of an immediate police crackdown on overnight parking...
...Crackdown. When Ogden reported his findings, police and customs men moved fast. At Hong Kong, customs officers saw a Chinese sneak aboard a plane in the airport hangar and emerge carrying twelve fat envelopes. They grabbed him and recovered $142,000. At Philippine airfields, $171,000 more was confiscated. In Manila, an informer led Ogden to a man who offered to sell him 500 counterfeit money-order blanks at 25 pesos ($12.50) each, and obligingly showed him the printing plant where they were being turned out. Police nabbed the forgers...
...call upon state and federal authorities for a crackdown on narcotics peddlers...