Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they did or neglected to do was the cause of their destitution.' (Tunney will not be asked to do any more exhibiting if he utters such treason...
Married. Marie Yvonne Dvorak, 20, niece of Composer Anton Dvorak; to John Vernon Henry, 22, onetime Notre Dame halfback; in Oakland, Calif. Her father, the composer's younger brother, was banished some 25 years ago by the Austrian government for alleged editorial treason in Prague...
...conviction that Doheny and Fall were acquitted more through skilful manipulation of the paradoxical machinery of the Common Law than through conviction of their innocence. It has never been easy to prove guilt in cases of major political importance. The ordinary course of justice could not convict Strafford of treason; public odium and the amazing oratory of Burke and Sheridan could not find Hastings guilty...
...deal with an organized conspiracy to subvert the Government, but the force behind the raids and the genius directing them will not be able to make a sustained attack on liberty, order and peace in the Irish Free State." He then introduced the Public Safety Bill, supplementing the Treason Act and conferring emergency powers upon the Government. By employing all the persuasion at his command he was able to get the bill through the Dail last week...
This diverting sophistry was propounded in the Athenian press last week with a definite purpose. The recently deposed dictator of Greece, General Pangalos is soon to be brought to trial, and it is intended to convict him of high treason. At the same time the present dictator of Greece, General Kondylis, must be purged of treasonable taint, though he seized power (TIME, Aug. 30) by exactly the same violent means as did General Pangalos (TIME, July...