Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When last week's nudity rumpus cast general suspicion on all the Fair's rowdy, stay-up-late activity, Major Lenox Riley Lohr, the hard-bitten onetime soldier whom the Brothers Dawes made the Fair's general manager (TIME, May 22), enacted a 1:30 curfew. On none of the three following nights was any patron of the hot spots evicted before 3 a. m.. The concessionaires complained that the only chance they had to make hay was while the stars shone. To them, President Rufus Cutler Dawes replied...
Added crisp Martha Steele McGrew of Tennessee, Major Lohr's able assistant and author of the curfew law. after an inspection of the Fair's night life: "After midnight about three-quarters of the Midway concessions had closed voluntarily. The chief objection to letting the others remain open indefinitely was the problem created by unescorted women who stay on the grounds late at night, too drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after...
...long has Minneapolis been closed up tight, sending every one home with the curfew. I want every one to know they can come to Minneapolis and enjoy themselves. And that's for the wags who have been calling Minneapolis a '9 o'clock town...
...comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew on the city, sent out patrols to break up unauthorized gatherings...
...disadvantage but an advantage. . . . They called me Monsieur Auld Reekie." "If you want to start a war" advised Bishop Francis John McConnell, "mobilize the liars and get the churches to bless it." Shanghai police arrested Cinemactor Ronald Colman who was strolling the town after curfew...