Word: padlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University departments are academic, nor do they all padlock their doors come June...
Montreal's press kept editorially mum, but Ontario's staunchly conservative Toronto Globe & Mail thundered: "Today the padlock law is used against a paper which is unpopular and weak. Tomorrow it can be used against any political foe which the Union Nationale Government chooses to regard as offensive...
Orders for the raid had come directly from Premier Maurice Duplessis, who (as Attorney General) is both executor and sponsor of the 1937 padlock law banning the use of premises for disseminating Communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever." In the 32 months before he went out of office in November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many...
...Associated Press and the Harvard Athletic Association officially put the padlock on the 1947 fall sports system with final tabulations of the autumn records of Crimson teams released over the post-Thanksgiving weekend. Rating the Quakers from Pennsylvania first in the Ivy League, the AP's standings showed the Crimson in a tie with Brown for sixth place in the League with a record of one win against three losses in Ivy games...
These elevens plus the Jayvees and Freshmen paused in turn before leaving to give a rousing cheer to their comrades of the past 11 weeks. Then the managers picked up their footballs and put the padlock on Soldiers Field...