Word: padlocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. No believer in freedom of the press, where it "accords the license to teach all error, gossip all calumny, and provide revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." Cardinal Villeneuve has been credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided and padlocked, on the strength of his belief that it is disseminating Communism (TIME, Nov. 22). Most unfortunate recent victim of the Padlock...
...Catholic Church is the largest in Canada, representing 41% of the popula tion, 85% in the French-speaking Province of Quebec. Last week a vehement protest against the Padlock Law was registered by a religious minority group, the Social Service Council of Canada, in which the principal Protestant churches participate. The council called the law "dangerously vague, beyond the authority of the Province of Quebec, contrary to the fundamental rights of a British citizen, contrary to public policy in Canada and menacing to the educational rights of religious minorities...