Word: felon
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Candidate for President Earl Russell Browder, convicted of passport fraud and out on bail pending an appeal, was denied the right to leave the State of New York. Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. expressed his "informal" opinion that Browder, as a felon, had lost the right to vote...
...press of Paris and London let go with a broadside of invective. "King Quisling," sneered the London Evening Standard. "King of the Fifth Column," echoed the Daily Mirror. In Paris the best that Leopold was called was "traitor" and "felon king." Paris-soir reported that General Walter von Reichenau's peace terms, which Leopold accepted, included the turning over to the Germans of all war materiel intact, free passage of the German Army to the sea. The French Legion of Honor struck Leopold's name from its rolls...