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...Nazis succeed. Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha's pro-British Government is more stable, has wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since the war has been a spark plug of pro-Axis intrigue...
...came back from the war. He was broke. In Minneapolis, where he had once been a police reporter for the Tribune, Captain Billy opened a tavern for ex-soldiers and sailors, called it the Army & Navy Club. When a squad of prohibition-enforcement officers raided the club, put a padlock on the door, Captain Billy went to work in a roadhouse...
...rule in Quebec, on the strength of some high-sounding oratory against trusts and political graft. But he found promises when out of office easier to make than laws when in. He dropped trust-busting for labor-baiting, and the law for which he is best known is his Padlock Law, allowing him to shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler...
Pravda jeered at Communist inefficiency. Pravda railed at the Five-Year Plan. What about the trousers, made at Moscow Factory No. 1, with one leg black and the other blue? What about the padlock with keys that didn't fit, the cups with holes in them, the baby dolls with grey hair and crooked legs...
Neighbors of Edward Frances Murphy on the outskirts of San Jose, Calif, were surprised, one day last month, to see him chopping down the trees and shrubs around his two-room cottage, surprised next to see him move all his belongings out of the house and padlock the doors, surprised next to see smoke curling out of the building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having...