Word: padlocks
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...someone will put a padlock on the Phillips Brooks House until the money it wants to spend on a new chapel has gone into a theatre, that man will do a great service to the University...
...decision of Mr. Emory Buckner, the new United States District Attorney in the New York district, to "padlock" restaurants selling liquor involves more issues than that of prohibition enforcement. Aside from the question of constitutionality, the extension of injunctions to cover this special field may bring all injunctions into disrepute...
...true that the padlock method of enforcement, by which property is literally locked up under court injunction for a six-month period, gives the enforcement officers the most effective local weapon against liquor sellers. As Mr. Buckner points out, the normal trial-by-jury method would require ten years to clear the present calendars of the courts in New York city, but judges listening to injunctions could do it in less than half a year. The use of the injunction, however, is open to grave abuses. It is judge-made law, to be used when there is clearly no redress...
Senator Willis, big Ohio Republican, proposed an amendment to restrict passage of residents of Canada and Mexico across the borders. "What does it amount to," cried he, "to shut and padlock the front door and leave the back door open?" The Senate, 60 to 12, refused to recognize the force of his interjection. Said Pennsylvanian Reed: "This is absolutely unnecessary.* This is unwise if we are to pay any atten- tion to the Pan-American idea." And Senator Fess (from Ohio, like Mr. Willis) cautioned: "It will disturb our relations."; New Mexican Bursum added : "We had $200,000,000 trade...
...religious nature. The conditions of the Concordat of 1851, which regulated the relation of the Church and State in Spain and which laid down that only three religious orders J were to be established, were broken and friction occurred with the Vatican. In 1910 a measure known as the Padlock Bill was passed by the Cortes and recognized by the Pope. This bill prohibited the establishment of any more orders in Spain. In 1912 it lapsed but was prolonged by instruction to the Bishops from the Pope, though the Cortes (Spanish Parliament) tried to abrogate it. Since then relations between...