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...Extension of padlock injunctions to reach property owners who conceal themselves from the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: First-Born | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Despite the fact that Judge McCormick had lately sat on the U. S. bench in Manhattan, had there issued many a Dry padlock order against Broadway night clubs, Senator Harris cried: "Just what I feared! . . . An encouragement to violations of the law. . . . A partisan against Prohibition unfit to hold office on the commission. . . . Prohibition forces will be greatly disappointed if the President does not remove this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dry Discord | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...York Public Library developed clay feet last week. It holds a second mortgage on property occupied by the Melody Club, Manhattan joy parlor, often afflicted with Prohibition trouble. As holder of the mortgage, the library is co-defendant in a padlock action brought by the U. S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Co-defendant | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Atlantic City police please they should arrest Cohen and Kelly, so the police arrest Cohen Sr. and old Mrs. Kelly arriving there to bring back young Kelly and Cohen; and then Mrs. Cohen and Papa Kelly come to jail too and Mr. Cohen is so crazy-acting they padlock him alongside an ugly crook. It would be much funnier cut to two reels and without its terrible subtitles. Best shot: Cohen trying to get his wallet away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...resonance of her voice after midnight, she became famous after 20 years in vaudeville, stock, and westerns, as hostess of her own Manhattan night-club-the El Fay. An El Fay waiter sold a bottle to a customer with a badge and the club was given a padlock and a front-page story. In a new club Hostess Guinan continued to greet her friends with "Hello, Johnny" and her paying clients with "Hello, sucker."; Keeping her ebullience corsetable with a diet of broccoli and orange juice, she shouts "Pull up your water wings" whenever somebody upsets a bottle and "Give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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