Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traitor" Bennett. On the constructive side of his campaign speeches, Mr. Bennett has urged much more than countervailing duties, in fact high tariffs all around, and protections for Canadian industries even against those of the Mother Country. By turning this idea inside out Mr. King and his henchmen (who favor "preferential tariffs" on Empire goods) have been able to impute to Mr. Bennett a sort of spacious treachery to the Empire as a whole, a niggardly and local view. This is the more grotesque because the Conservative Party is traditionally the arch-Imperial party of Canada. But in this election...
...Traitor" King. In their campaign speeches Bachelors Bennett and King have made amply clear that each is resolved to deprive the U. S. of any undue tariff advantage. The recent budget, brought in by Mr. King's Finance Minister, the Rt. Hon. Charles Avery ("Charlie") Dunning (TIME, May 12). wobbled as far from traditional free trade as did the Al Smith- Democratic platform...
...opponents are going to let the United States write Canada's tariff act!" he has exclaimed with effective horror upon numerous platforms. He has asked, "Shall this be?" Waving the maple-leaf-embroidered shirt of Canadian patriotism, he has suggested that Mr. King is in effect almost a traitor to the Dominion...
...Death sentencing of Communists at Lemberg was an exception. According to despatches the accused denied that they were Communists, but the Lemberg Court held that their possession of much Communist literature established the presumption that they were Communists. Upon this presumption and its corollary that a Communist is a traitor they were sentenced to Death. Communist deputies are of course protected by their parliamentary immunity...
...ever see such a fine car?" he cried to Paris reporters. Next day L'Oeuvre flayed M. Claudel as an economic traitor to the French motor industry, wound up by chastising him for not serving enough wine at his Embassy...