Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Professor Luigi Luzzatti, 86, onetime (1910) Italian Premier and Minister of the Interior; in Rome. As a young man, he, a Venetian Jew, was accused of treason for starting a gondolier mutual aid society, in Venice. Besides holding government positions he created the "Peoples Banks," and two years ago was popularly nominated first president of the proposed "Italian Academy...
...Dreyfus case purported to be the trial of an army officer indicted for high treason; but a wave of anti-Semitism was then sweeping France, and the charge of treason served as but a thin screen behind which was fought another race and religious battle. Sacco and Vanzetti, seven years ago, were nominally tried for the murder of a paymaster and his guard; but a wave of reaction against radical notions of all kinds was at the time sweeping this country, and economic doctrines played an important part in the evidence submitted to a jury impanelled...
Makes one reason almost treason...
...henchman is driven to reveal to his wife his perfidy: how he deprived the King of her beauty, her of a queen's throne. If she loves him, let her hurry to make herself appear ugly, bent, broken, scarred, withered, that the King may find his brother innocent of treason...
Died. Eugene Turpin, 78, inventor of melinite;* of pulmonary congestion, at Pontoise, France. His life was embittered in 1889 when he was falsely accused of treason, a Captain Tripone having stolen his secret and sold his invention to a foreign power. He was pardoned in 1893 and exonerated in 1901. Last week Cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had not worn since he had been accused, was placed on his coffin...