Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some reasons for this startling sobriety: hard training makes hangovers all but unendurable; strict penalties for drunkenness (30 days in the guardhouse at Randolph Field); liquor curfew hours in some towns adjacent to camps; sale of 3.2 beer in camp canteens (in World War I camps were bone dry and bootlegging was rife...
...over. At 10 o'clock a message arrived in Vichy informing Marshal Petain that the fleet no longer existed. Occupation of Toulon by the Germans was completed without further incident. Martial law was clamped on the town; the Mayor decreed an 8 o'clock curfew for all public places...
This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law had never been declared, was merely assumed. Possible results: 1) declaration of martial law on the Pacific Coast; 2) increased difficulty in enforcing dimouts, etc.; 3) court action by citizen Japanese who may construe from Judge Fee's ruling that they are illegally kept in camps...
...decision of Attorney General Biddle to regard all aliens of Italian origin as friendly, and to exempt them from curfew restrictions and other disabilities, is intelligent, humane, and well-advised...
...tent barbershop, or go to the hospital, which has the only bath and running-water toilets in town. Average Saturday night consumption of 50?-a-bottle beer is 3,500 bottles. At the Inn in Whitehorse the jampacked soldiers sometimes push the 11 o'clock curfew up to 2 a.m., ending with a mouth-organ duet and fine, boozy soldier harmony. Checks are cashed at the only bank for 460 miles around-the same one in which Poetaster Robert Service clerked in the gold-rush days...