Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago kidnapping of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's son Jerome (TIME, April 24): Jerome's return early one morning. Factor claimed he had gulled the kidnappers by publishing a letter he had written to himself, boosting the ransom price. They began to suspect a traitor among themselves...
...still in Nazi good graces he went to London" called according to rumor by Sir Henri Deterding who was currying favor with Adolf Hitler in the hope of winning oil contracts for Royal Dutch-Shell. Later came a break with Capt. Roehm. Dr. Bell was accused of being a traitor to the party, of printing Nazi secrets in a Munich Catholic paper...
...that he knew about Marie Louise and the money received and had called his brother a fool. He added: "Women were on his mind the whole time." As the defense rested, the prosecution which had been calling Lieut. Baillie-Stewart everything from a "kept man'' to a traitor suddenly announced that it would advise the court that it had "no proof of treacherous intention on the part of the accused...
Until recently a majority of Chinese newspapers flayed Generalissimo Chiang as a coward and a traitor, first because he sent no troops to help the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army at Shanghai, second because his foreign policy has been non-declaration of war on Japan and trust in the League of Nations. Last week Chiang had a slightly better Chinese Press because-though few if any Chinese expected him to fight Japan-the Generalissimo might change his mind. Burning with their country's shame, thousands of Chinese students yearned to fight, passionately discussed the whole ghastly situation in round...
...towering rage, young Marshal Chiang denounced Fugitive Tang as a "traitor to China," ordered his instant arrest if & when caught. Forgetting that he himself swore only a few weeks ago to defend Jehol to the last-as did the Chinese Nanking Government on the pledged word of Acting Premier & Finance Minister T. V. Soong (TIME, Feb. 27)- the Young Marshal tried to blame everything on the Chinese soldiers he had just shut out of China...