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Word: traitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still did not have good control of the Chinese. Puppet President Wang Ching-wei's Central China Daily News serves as an organ of Japanese propaganda. In it last week-between the lines of a gambling-house advertisement-a Chinese compositor had set the words: "Down with the traitor Wang Ching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Vanishing Metropolis | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...respect for cold facts. His tirelessness in tracking down historical obscurities (he is probably the world's No. 1 literary detective), his fearlessness in publishing what he finds, have resulted in some shocking reversals of U. S. cultural myths. In two of his books, Roberts has heroized Traitor Benedict Arnold. This week the same qualities resulted in another first-class historical shocker. Oliver Wiswell is a sustained and uncompromising report of the American Revolution from the Tory viewpoint. It will start Union Now advocates turning handsprings, may well set the D. A. R. to plaiting nooses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Man's Romance | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...time a pacifist by conviction. A Conservative by heredity, he earned the undying hatred of Conservatives for bolting to Lloyd George's Liberals. Twenty years later he bolted from the Liberals. He introduced into Parliament many of Britain's most important social measures. Labor called him "traitor." Reason: as Minister of Munitions in World War I, Churchill told striking munition workers that if they were dissatisfied with conditions on the job, they could try conditions at the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

This was too much for Germany. Though Quisling's name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor, though his domestic political backing had proved illusory, he appeared the only possible German straw man. Press criticism of him was forbidden and Alfred Nilsen, editor of the Norwegian Labor Party's Arbeiderbladet, was jailed for expressing "degrading judgments" of "an exponent of National Socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Commission State | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...rather you would sit somewhere else," quietly said Beverly Vincent. When Sweeney bristled, Vincent added: "You are a traitor." Words passed. Vincent called Sweeney a ... .. . ..... . Sweeney swung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Bitter End | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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