Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congress has not said that "we will allow only men who agree with us to debate with us," but Congress has, with thoroughly justifiable indignation, refused to permit the contamination of the national legislative body by admitting to it a man who has served a prison sentence for treason against the United States government in war time, and whose "ideals" are confessedly unchanged. I grant that the man is probably sincere; sincere people are the most dangerous. Mr. Pond has undertaken to defend a man whose conduct renders him indefensible. J. G. CURTIS...
...today must be the watchwords of the Allies. We have to hold out against the whisperings of pessimism. Clouds of blood and horror come, but they will pass away and the sun of victory will shine through. This is not an ordinary war; it is a holy war against treason, corruption and the power of evil...
Shipbuilders engaged in industry essential to the war's prosecution must learn that laying down their work to bleed the Government for their own selfish benefit is little short of treason. No punishment is too severe for such men. If they cannot freely put forth their best, they may be met by a stern curtailment of their liberty. This much is certain, the time for barter with unionism has long passed...
Swindling under these conditions comes close to treason. And if a foreign grocer is deprived of his rights to sell because he charges a few cents in excess of the legal rate for sugar, the capitalist who turns sorely needed funds into private pockets must not expect to retain his power over finance. Loyalty and service are the tests or survival...
...North Dakota and Baltimore in removing the study of German from their school curricula. These same people may now look askance at the list of new courses to be offered by the University this next half-year. As against two French courses stand seven new German subjects. Oh treason of the blood! And so the great New England seat of learning is after all willing to disseminate enemy propaganda under the guise of education. No; the fact is that Harvard is not yet infected with a blind patriotism which sweeps all before it, whether it be good or not. President...