Word: lese
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 50 Rumanian lawyers courted popularity last week by offering their services free to defend a citizen jailed for lese majeste to King Carol...
...their way home last week for a breather before reassembling sometime between September and January, having completely baffled the world as to what they had really accomplished. Almost as baffled was tall, hawk-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, veteran of a dozen conferences, who last week followed lese-majestic Herbert George Wells (TIME, Aug. 8) as guest lecturer at the Oxford Liberal Summer School. He mused that "if Europe and America agreed on a common world Disarmament policy Japan could not stand out alone against it." But as the actual record of accomplishment, he said...
...unfortunate suggestion. The Chief of Police is a member of the royal family. Zionist Haim was charged with sedition, conspiracy, lese majeste, and sentenced to death. Through the years Jewish organizations all over the world have attempted to intercede on behalf of Mr. Haim...
...Gangster King Alfonso of Chicago was convicted (of U. S. income tax evasion) four weeks before Bourbon King Alfonso of Spain was formally convicted of "high treason, of heading a military rebellion, of lese majeste against of the sovereignty of the Spanish people" (TIME...
Defense seemed hopeless. "Alfonso de Bourbon y Habsburg Lorraine is guilty of high treason," a Parliamentary Committee had already reported. "He is guilty of heading a military rebellion [the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship]. . . . He is guilty of lese majeste against the sovereignty of the Spanish people...