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...Representative McFadden passed his resolution to the clerk on the rostrum and took a seat on the front-row bench. Beneath his red hair his face looked pale and drawn. No man in the House hates President Hoover more intensely than he. Last session he accused him of treason in granting the Debt Moratorium (TIME, Dec. 28). He has fought the Hoover financial policy at every turn. Now he had pulled his grievances together into 24 impeachment counts which the House quickly recognized as "old stuff." Above the members' resentful babble only phrases of the McFadden resolution as read...
...Japan, it is tantamount to treason to criticize the fighting services. Jiji Shimpo ventured...
...days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...
...Crimes for which the penal code inflicts life imprisonment, namely: high treason, incendiarism, causing explosions or floods and damaging railway lines shall be punishable by death. Similarly capital punishment may be inflicted in a case of lesser treason, for inciting to riot and committing acts of violence in connection therewith...
...facts." The Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite Minnesota's Shipstead exploded: "If any official of the United States Government has led agents of foreign governments to believe we will cancel debts owed to us for cancellation of Reparations he is very nearly guilty of treason to the United States! He certainly is guilty of swindling foreign governments...