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...press, which is quick to cry out against anything that looks like interference with press freedom, last week applauded the Government's crackdown on Editor Griffin, along with the publishers of 29 other "vermin" sheets (including Scribner's Commentator) named in the indictment...
Price Boss Henderson marshaled his forces for the first enforcement attack on price ceilings. In several cities, squads of OPAgents made the rounds of retail stores, looking for posted ceiling prices. They found very few. But there was no crackdown. The agents were just dropping in to explain the complex...
...detailed certain dispositions not of United Nations' but of enemy forces; There was apparently good reason why the information should never have been made public. Nevertheless it was published by papers in several parts of the U.S. Outraged, the Government cracked down, forbidding not only mention of its crackdown but any reprinting of the information, which had already had a circulation of some 5,000,000 copies and was therefore hardly a secret, by any definition...
...bootlegger, ex-Klansman, ex-Coughlinite and a black hater of Jews, Communists and Roosevelt last week provided the first humor thus far in the Government's crackdown on "vermin publications." Square-jawed Court Asher, Muncie, Ind. publisher of XRay, was defending his weekly before Washington postal authorities, who gave him until June 2 to show cause why his paper should not be banned for sedition...
...Canadian dailies, both normally stanch supporters of the Mackenzie King Government, were fined last fortnight. It was the first major crackdown for violation of Canada's Defense Regulations...