Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After disturbances a fortnight ago Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
...Martial law was enforced. Six o'clock curfew was ordered, armored cars guarded the streets and airplanes watched from above. Censorship was rigid...
Close on the heels of Grover Whalen's curfew for night-clubs, the parents of New York's younger set have dropped the shoe that will bring Manhattan's deb parties to a three o'clock ending. This change is but a part of the program which irate hostesses will inaugurate next season. One thousand questionnaires carefully distributed among the Four Hundred revealed that the young people are all in favor of reform...
...unanimous vote of the Sobranye (Parliament) all taxes were increased 20% to provide a relief fund. In quake areas a curfew bell was rung at 9 p. m., and persons seen prowling near shattered buildings after that hour were presumed to be thieves and fired upon at sight by military sentries. Profiteering in food or building materials was checked by a special law providing that offenders should have their entire property confiscated and should receive publicly 25 lashes...
...Book.* The red brick schoolhouse, copy books, McGuffey's readers; Rockefeller's millions and Roosevelt's teeth; Langley and the Wright Brothers building flimsy miracles; Hill and Harriman fighting for a railroad; automobiles and oil wells and Andrew Carnegie, "The Octopus," The Jungle and dirty canned meat; "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," "Old Dan Tucker," "Buffalo Gals" and "The Man with the Hoe." These are a few of the elements of history in the first years of the century; they are a few of the elements in Volume II of Mark Sullivan's Our Times...