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From 1889 to 1894 the games were held in Springfield, because Boston and New Haven complained about the damage wreaked on them in former years, and these two towns were annually depopulated for one weekend late in November. The seating situation was stringent, for Hampden Park held a bare 9,000 paying customers and the Springfield City Council kept more than 2,000 for the inhabitants of their own city...
Behind the republics was a record of Good Neighborliness that includes parallel export control systems (in some instances more stringent than the U.S. parent system); an enforced blacklist (U.S.-drafted) of Axis-influenced firms; 80 to 100 Axis ships immobilized in Latin American ports for hemisphere use; agreements whereby the U.S. gets first call (literally an airtight monopoly) on vast supplies of strategic materials...
This means that since the applications are all around more numerous than last year, the weeding-out process and amount of "attrition" will be more stringent than ever...
...Stringent though the FTC ruling is, it is moderate as compared with the acrimonious bickering that preceded it. Each side called over 100 witnesses. Good -Housekeeping's Attorney Isaac W. Digges called the FTC charges "vague, uncertain, undefinite, confused, confusing, argumentative, ambiguous, self-contradictory, conclusory and unintelligible." Hearst Magazines General Manager Richard Berlin charged that the attack on Good Housekeeping's 35-year-old seal business was inspired by subversive groups bent on destroying advertising altogether...
Riley's big chance came when the Japanese took Shanghai in 1937. The New Order in East Asia has been the biggest bonanza for criminals that China has ever seen. With stringent wartime blue laws at home, every out-of-work prostitute, gambler and dope peddler in Japan headed for Occupied China, where their enterprises found Army protection.* Local talent, too, found the Japanese Army and the puppet Government amenable to bribes...