Word: curfew
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...aliens must move by Feb. 24. No one could say how many thousands would have to pack up and go. Nor did anyone know where they would go to. (The Government considered the idea of setting up big farm camps in the interior.) Francis Biddle also set up a curfew zone, covering a fourth of California, where all remaining aliens must be in their houses from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., must never travel more than five miles from home...
...Teacher Council staged a meeting of parents, policemen and schoolmen last week to consider what to do, decided that 1) New Rochelle parents had been too lenient with their children, 2) if their town had better recreational facilities, their youngsters might spend less time in bars and roadhouses. A curfew and parental ban on juvenile driving were proposed but quickly rejected as too hard to enforce. The parents temporized by agreeing to try to make their children come home earlier at night; police promised to shoo minors away from bars...
...crowded Washington set a different bee buzzing in the bonnet of Indiana's Representative Earl Wilson. He thought there ought to be a 10 p.m. curfew to help Heaven protect the Government working girl. The girls all said that Heaven was plenty of protection, thank you very much...
...Germans are still fighting an inconclusive campaign with hard-bitten Chetniks in the Serbian mountains. The Italians last week replaced a general in their Army of Occupation who had failed to conquer the Yugoslav guerrillas. A strict curfew suddenly clamped on Belgrade indicated that the Serbian patriots were operating even in the capital...
...soldiers have disappeared, but they have been replaced by Frauen in Uniform. All nightclubs are open and filled with Germans and their collaborationist friends. Life is very gay, and champagne flows like water-but French people (if there are any) must leave at 11:30 or stay until the curfew ends at five in the morning...