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...made this journalistic conservatism almost untenable. War was too real, too exciting.* By spring 1941, when Ray Brock wrote from Belgrade with glorious enthusiasm of the Yugoslav decision to fight the Nazis, the lid was off. Now Times correspondents are allowed always to write much as they please...
Order 9250. In its simplest terms, Jimmy Byrnes's job is to rivet a lid on civilian economy that will prevent an uncontrolled inflation from breaking out. In the words of Executive Order 9250, he is directed to "formulate and develop a comprehensive national economic policy relating to the control of civilian purchasing power, prices, rents, wages, salaries, profits, rationing, subsidies and all related matters"; and is given the absolute power to order any Government administrator to carry out the points of that policy...
Franco had the best of reasons for keeping Spain out of the war. If either the Axis or the Allies moved into Spain, the lid would blow off. It is not clear who would then come out on top, but it seems highly probable that Dictator Franco would land on his bottom...
...nation's press had just received a very complete and baffling set of ground rules for wartime censorship, but despite this everyone was optimistic and cooperative. A far cry from that was the scene in Washington a fortnight ago, as long-suffering correspondents threatened at last to blow the lid over the ridiculous hush-hush handling of President Roosevelt's inspection tour...
...nerves and acceleration, pressure make school parties vital as the best possible way to blow off the lid. Yet without this Faculty reasonableness, the future dancing of the red-blooded Harvard man would have to be squeezed into the anemic form of Common Room record dances. The last time the University made this gracious gesture, excessive breakage and undergraduates welching on promises forced it to draw back. Another failure and it won't be repeated...