Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the Road. When Padre Luis Leon entered the church to say the first Mass of the day, he discovered the desecration, hastily called police. The stolen jewels were only worth about $500 (the Virgin's $30,000 full-dress outfit is kept under lock except for days of special devotion), but they had to be recovered at once; the archbishop himself was paying a visit that day. Police Chief Luis Proafio forbade all cars to leave the village, went out to search with Padre Leon. Some miles down the road, they were hailed by a man standing with...
Last week, the Senate Banking & Currency Committee decided it was time to lock the RFC's job-placement door. It approved a bill that would bar RFC officials who have lending discretion from accepting jobs with RFC borrowers for two years after loans are made. Speedy congressional passage was likely...
...Senators were also looking for other doors to lock. With the Army tracking down the shennanigans of "Five-Percenters" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler thought the Government ought to go after its own ex-officials who practice law before the same agencies they once bossed...
...Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old harassing tactics-trying to slip irrelevant evidence into the record, denouncing a ticklish question as "Hitlerian distortion," flouting the rules to the point where Judge Harold Medina threatened to lock him up for contempt as he had already locked up four of Davis' fellow defendants...
...youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...