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Mackenzie King's temperance edict-issued under his emergency war powers-was ordered in the name of total war (he talked of savings in manpower efficiency and scarce newsprint). But he also complained that Canadian thirst had increased since the war began: pre-war consumption of spirits had risen from 3,500,000 gallons yearly to almost 5,000,000; wine consumption had increased by nearly 1,000,000 gallons...
...thus far not come forth with a schedule. And when the schedule finally does emerge, Barnaby says, it will only include an "A" and a "B" league, as opposed to last year's five or six. Even the intercollegiate matches stand a good chance of being cancelled by an edict that prohibits minor sports teams from being transported by the University...
Zoot suitists deprived of drape shapes, reet pleats and stuff cuffs by WPB edict have a new decorative theme with which to express themselves in San Francisco and Oakland. War-working jalopy jerks find love stripes, painted diagonally across the doors of their hot irons,† the quickest way to let hep twists know what kind of wolf is giving them a gander. One stripe indicates single male on the scout. Two stripes-going steady but still stuff seeking. Three stripes-practically engaged, looking for no pickups. Four stripes-in the saddle, all soaped up, or married...
After Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, chief U.S. trust buster, had argued for an hour that Petrillo's edict not only established a closed shop but tried "to secure a closed country," brusque Judge Barnes did not even bother to hear Petrillo's side of the case. He had read the record, he said, and was convinced the case before him was a labor dispute between union musicians and record manufacturers and radio stations. The Norris-LaGuardia Act outlawed injunctions in labor disputes, said the judge; furthermore, he could find no violations of the Sherman...
...announcement from the Dean of Princeton college that no more large dances will be allowed for the duration the Princetonian has announced that the traditional Yale-Princeton dance, sponsored by the dailies of the two colleges, will be held at New York, November 14, thus avoiding the edict which was aimed--at congestion of train lines lending into Princeton...