Word: padlocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article was written for the Crimson on Quebec's Padlock law which does the Massachusetts Oath Bill one worse in that it is really restricting freedom of speech in the Canadian province. As in Massachusetts, the fight for the repeal of the law seems for the time being to be doomed, and as in Massachusetts communism is the excuse for its existence...
...pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
Determined to test the constitutionality of the "Padlock Law," the Civil Liberties Union will Seek an injunction forcing...
Year ago Father Coughlin promised to stop broadcasting if Franklin Roosevelt were reelected, but the New Deal's landslide did not stop him. Last week it appeared that if the President could not padlock Father Coughlin's tongue a Catholic prelate could...
...York Legislature, at the behest of the Catholic Church which had just helped close all Manhattan burlesque shows (TIME, May 10), hastily passed a certain Dunnigan Bill. This would have empowered New York City's Commissioner of Licenses to close, singlehanded, any play he considered "immoral," padlock the theatre where it was shown. Mobilized public sentiment persuaded Governor Herbert Lehman to veto the bill last fortnight...