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Havana. Crowds were forbidden. Anyone who "gossiped against the Government" was liable to 15 days in jail, & a $50 fine, as was anyone who appeared in the streets bareheaded and wearing a beard. Police had discovered that a bristling beard and a bare head were being adopted by young Cubans as badge of revolutionary sympathy...
...earned $989,002.* But if the financial burdens of the News increased during Publisher Strong's regime, so did its editorial vigor. The paper lost none of its integrity or decency, but did become much brighter than in the days of the ultra-conservative Lawson. Horse race results, forbidden by Publisher Lawson, blossomed on the front page. A mid-week magazine, edited by dapper, energetic Charles Robert Douglas Hardy Andrews, was added to the Wednesday editions. A vigorous campaign against gangsters resulted in the closing of racketeer-owned dog tracks. Its enviable reputation for foreign correspondence was heightened with...
...Germany, the export or transfer of currency abroad was forbidden without permission from the National Bank...
...what route they had taken? Certainly. . . . Indignation rose to fury. They had flown over Tsugaru Strait, which is fortified; the naval post at Ominato; the concealed fortifications near Tokyo Bay. They had landed for a moment on the new airport at Haneda, not yet opened to traffic-all forbidden areas. And they had taken photographs? Hand them over...
...Corners," as every one knows, are forbidden on most civilized stock and commodity exchanges. Not so the "squeeze," which approaches a corner without actually turning it. Last week the corn pit of the Chicago Board of Trade, slumbering in the doldrums of depression, was stirred to humming life by a squeeze worthy of the late great Benjamin P. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson himself. Thomas Montgomery Howell, a wiry, taciturn La Salle Street grain broker who is picked by many to fill the big shoes left empty when Arthur William Cutten moved up to Winnipeg (TIME, Jan. 26), was the squeezer. Many...