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...group was split over the issue of the timeliness of the price-freeze order. Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, considered the edict "premature" because the machinery needed to put the plan in operation is not yet ready. On the other hand, Malcolm P. McNair, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said it should have come earlier to prevent the wave of scare-buying that has been going on and keep prices at a lower level. No mention was made of a price roll-back...
What, No Handcuffs? The British hastily passed an edict banning any visits to Helgoland, then told German authorities to enforce it. A British revenue cutter ordered to the scene was damaged by ice floes and forced back to base for repairs. A Royal Navy patrol boat met the same fate. The ex-German navy captain of a minesweeper flotilla, now operating under British orders, refused to send his ships...
...commissioner stuck stubbornly to his edict and Burstyn's lawyers went to court. At week's end, State Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg threatened a temporary injunction against the edict. "I am concerned," he said, "with whether the commissioner has a right to set himself up as a dictator." At that point, McCaffrey weakened. While waiting for a full hearing this week, he lifted the ban. That evening, any New Yorker with the price of a ticket ($1.50) could see The Miracle and judge for himself whether it was worth all the todo...
...Roman Emperor (245-313 A.D.) who issued an edict fixing prices of such things as cereals, wines, meat, fruits, vegetables, leather, timber, carpets and clothing. Punishment for overcharging: death or deportation. Fate of Diocletian's program: utter failure...
...that the Red army had instigated and helped the riots. Russian Deputy Commissioner Lieut. General G. K. Tsinev huffed & puffed about "slanderous allegations," refused assurances demanded by Keyes that the Reds would not do it again. Next day, the Communists announced that, unless the government rescinded its wage-price edict, they would call a general strike this week...