Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military police moved into Broadway bars, began hauling soldiers away from their drinks while delighted sailors raised glasses and jeered happily. The next day the Navy spoke too-obey the midnight curfew...
LaGuardia, still curfused, still certain that a 12 o'clock curfew disrupted Manhattan's subway and bus systems, and that it would cause speakeasies to flower, made a nationwide radio speech to explain himself. He said that an hour of "tolerance" would make the curfew more easily enforced. Then he went on to plead that the city does not license bars which offer no entertainment, thus has no control over them. But nobody seemed to be listening...
Mayors from all over the country righteously denounced the LaGuardia attitude. Across the country (where the curfew was being observed without much fuss), editorial writers and cartoonists wound up and chucked their bluntest barbs at New York City's mayor...
...York bars and night clubs went right on shutting up at the stroke of midnight. At week's end administration officials, far from being indignant at the Little Flower, had begun to regard him benignly. The U.S. public, which had considered the curfew an unnecessary imposition, had got so mad at the mayor of sinful New York that they had begun to like...
...movements? Just an excuse for going out at night and getting into trouble, implied sharp-eyed, energetic Helen Sheldon, longtime headmistress of Britain's Luton High School. Citing complaints from parents that their daughters are being led astray, Headmistress Sheldon last week plumped for a 7:30 winter curfew for girls under 15. "It is not the movements that are at fault generally," said she, "but the fact that no discretion is shown in choice, so that two or three things are undertaken at the same time. One activity and once a week is enough...