Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Preparations. This week the first and most pressing piece of business was Moscow. Joseph Stalin declared a state of siege in the Capital. His proclamation, like all his speeches, was dull, factual, uninspiring. It limited traffic, decreed a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., pointed cryptically to the double danger in the rear of the troops defending Moscow and in the rear of Moscow itself, concluded quietly: "The State Committee for Defense appeals to all toilers in the Capital to keep calm and orderly and to render the Red Army defending Moscow all possible help...
...owner, long forced to hire extra help and stay open at night for competitive reasons, Harold Ickes has been a blessing that upped their profits. To the Senate hearing on gasoline rationing (TIME, Sept. 22), some of them sent a man to plead for keeping Ickes' 7 p.m. curfew. Last week in Utah, far from the Eastern shortage belt, members of the State's Association of Petroleum Retailers adopted the curfew just because they liked...
University of Oklahoma's new President Joseph A. Brandt announced that he would establish a curfew for men students (women already have one), said he hoped to give professors less work so they could have more ideas...
With the shortage presented in terms of tank-car and tanker capacity, there were bound to be public gripes at the gas curfew, Senate swats at the unpopular man who thought it up. Mr. Ickes had evidently tried to sell his conservation program on the wrong basis...
Because of the strike Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven decreed a state of emergency and clamped Oslo under martial law. Oslo's German police chief, Wilhelm Rediess, implemented the declaration by authorizing death penalties, confiscation of property. Oslo was placed under a 7 o'clock curfew, transportation was stopped after that hour, public meetings were prohibited, wireless sets seized, dancing forbidden. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Salvation Army organizations dissolved...