Word: padlocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June, Dr. Smahl grew weary of his records and complaints. He bought himself a padlock and put it on his dial to assure himself that no one else could turn it. This time, he refused to pay the difference of $1.10 between his record and the bill...
...break in?" asked Rector Dodd. "Yes!" said the Bishop loudly and firmly, adding that church law and civil law sanctioned him. Rector Dodd had with him a lock smith. While Bishop Manning waited, they went through the basement, sanctuary and nave, removing hinges, picking locks, at last smashing the padlock on the front gates of the church. "You are all welcome," beamed the rector, and all entered. Bishop Manning stepped to a footstool beneath the scaffolding, preached firmly on the rights of the rector to serve his neighborhood, ending, "I request, and as Bishop I instruct, that this church . . . shall...
Thirsty inhabitants of Greenwich Village were alarmed one day fortnight ago to see a large new padlock on the door of a popular 6th Avenue shop. Gone from the window were the innocent green ginger ale bottles which had identified it as one of Manhattan's legion of "cordial & beverage" shops. On the sidewalk rested several battered milk cans. Pasted on the door was a notice that read: "Closed for violation of the Prohibition Law." But before the day was over Villagers were reassured. The sign had not been up 24 hours before above the padlock notice appeared...
...Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan having pledged the faith of its operators to enforce the Prohibition laws to the best of their abilities, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock abandoned padlock proceedings which had been begun after a raid last summer...
...magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis-for-President] campaign manager for New York." Soon afterward, the article said, Curtis-booster Glaser asked Administrator Campbell to approve a whiskey permit for a pharmacy in the Cornish Arms Hotel (against which padlock proceedings later were brought) and a permit for withdrawing 700 gal. of alcohol per month for Spa Chemical Co. (which later was caught illegally diverting this alcohol...