“President Orders Army to Take Over Ward’s in Chicago.”
In case we thought all the fighting was in Europe or the Pacific ...
At first glance, I thought it was “wards,” as in election districts, but then I saw the apostrophe and realized it’s the ongoing dispute with the Montgomery Ward company.
Never let a ‘crisis’ go to waste.
War can provide excuses for government intrusions into people’s lives.
WW II went after business and even individuals with rules to shut down live entertainment at midnight so people would sleep and go to work in the morning instead of staying up late, drinking and dancing. Jukeboxes were shut down by government order at midnight, too.
By 1946 all the wartime rules and regulations, food rationing and so on caused a backlash politically with a Republican landslide in the elections.
9-11 gave us NSA data collection, the TSA at airports and so on.