Word: curfew
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After three weeks of the midnight curfew on the home front, one fact was well established: Jimmy Byrnes's remedy was worse than whatever disease it was supposed to cure...
...pinch was that folks were still after fun where they could find it. In most parts of the country, even in sportive Chicago, the curfew made no tremendous ripple. Midnight was time to get started home anyhow; only the swing-shifters, who like to drink, dance or bowl after midnight, seemed to have been hurt much...
Next day War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt announced (speaking for Byrnes) that he had been authorized to exempt restaurants from the curfew, provided they sold no liquor, offered no entertainment after midnight...
Puzzled citizens began to wonder if the curfew were being eased out of existence, were still a little puzzled after another Byrnes announcement: "The government does not intend to withdraw its request for a midnight curfew...
...posters. In Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China, Japanese troops violated the last pretense of French sovereignty, * took full control over France's richest colony (rice, rubber, tin, coal). They arrested Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy-appointed Governor General, promptly decreed martial law, a sunset-to-sunrise curfew. In Hanoi, Saigon (strategic harbor on the South China Sea) and other cities they disarmed French and Annamite garrisons. They formally proclaimed the "independence" of the Empire of Annam, province nearest the Philippines...