Word: padlocker
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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...
...intention to become involved in the polemics now being bandied about by professional sensationalists of the Press and Righteous Reverends, upon the one hand, and members of the student body upon the other. Those who advocate a new padlock for the stable are not only a little late in so doing, but they also seem to be doing it from a purely personal viewpoint: the Press of Boston because the subject makes good copy; the Pastors of Cambridge because they perhaps think that now is an excellent time to steer a few of the wayward flock into the fold...
...consent, the resolution would withdraw "any consent which the U. S. may have given" to the assertion of any claim against the Government for payment in 100? dollars on any of its securities, coins or currencies. Besides closing the door to legal action, the resolution put an extra padlock on by providing that no money shall be disbursed from the Treasury to pay any such claims...
...years past, it has surmounted brilliant discussions of the month's leading periodicals. I would gladly discuss any magazine that I could find. The only one that I have at hand, however, is Esquire. If you think that I am going to give President Conant the chance to padlock our door so that we have to crawl in the window you are mistaken...