Word: traitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter revolt against Lewis' high-handed methods, waged organizing battles with U.M.W. plug-uglies in which more than a score were killed. They erected a $250,000 monument to a tubthumping, whiskey-loving woman organizer, "Mother Jones" from Pennsylvania, whose most celebrated saying was, "Let not that traitor John Lewis ever breathe the air above my grave." "Mother Jones" turned up for all of P.M.W.'s toughest campaigns. Annually a giant memorial is held at her grave in Mt. Olive...
Back to Spain. After the war Bazaine returned to Paris to become the national scapegoat, to be charged with treason for surrendering. He was court-martialed, condemned to death as a traitor. Later his sentence was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment in an island jail off the French Riviera. One dark night the 63-year-old Marshal knotted his baggage straps into a rope, attached one end to his body and tied the other end to a gargoyle, slid down, escaped. In 1888 he died in Spain...
...biggest scapegoat was still the Anglo-Saxon enemy. To Allied promises to deal fairly with a non-Fascist Italy, the Duce replied: "Whoever believes in the enemy's suggestions is a criminal, a traitor and a bastard. . . . The enemy would disarm Italy down to her very sports guns. . . . Italy would become a geographical feature. . . . At this formidable juncture the Party must be the moving force of the nation's life...
Across the green leather benches and jarrah parquet floors of Canberra's House of Representatives the honorable members shouted and carried on like aborigines at a corroboree. Through three acrimonious days the Labor Government and the Opposition called each other names, including traitor. Then, after beating a no-confidence motion by one vote, Prime Minister John Curtin decided to take the issue to the country. A general election was slated for August...
...believe the activities of John L. Lewis have entered the realm of treason. Nor is John Lewis a traitor to his Government alone. He has betrayed by his excesses the cause of union labor. . . . He has betrayed the spirit of democracy. . . . He has betrayed the belief of the American soldier that this would be a war in which individuals' interests would be sublimated to the common purpose...