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Putting a crimp in plans for extended weekends, Dean Hanford said yesterday that there would be no holidays, as has been the custom over past years, on the day of the Yale game, at New Haven...
...Angeles. Never before had so many of their workers failed to show up on the job-the plants' skilled men had been stampeded by the U.S. Government. A few headlines, such as HALT DEFERMENT OF DEFENSE WORKERS IN DRAFT, MARRIED MEN TO BE INDUCTED, had put a crimp in vital war production...
...Manhattan's PM appeared on Boston newsstands with an anti-Hearst series, Reporter Reilly finagled through the City Council a city ordinance requiring newsboys and street stands to pay a $10-a-year license fee for out-of-State papers they handled. That, thought Reilly. would put a crimp in PM's Boston circulation. By week's end, when even Hearst's own Boston Record joined the general clamor for a mayoralty veto. Reporter Reilly discovered that he had overlooked one important fact: Hearst's New York Daily Mirror has a profitable Sunday street sale...
...relieved postmen of carrying Social Justice around in their packs when he banned Father Coughlin's up-to-the-minute Fascist newsmagazine on the grounds of sedition under the espionage act. At 11:30 Sunday morning Social Justice distributors in Boston decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston...
...London a British spokesman explained how this shortage was putting a crimp in Allied naval action: "Without an umbrella of protecting planes from carriers or land bases, warships would be at the mercy of Japanese aircraft from dozens of bases...