Word: treasonable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even the President of the United States," Sweeney observed, "could got in to see that fellow." The only newspapermen who have any chance of talking to Parkhurst, he suggested, are Douglas Chandler and Robert Bost, two overseas newsmen charged with treason and broadcasting in the service of the enemy during the war. They are Federal prisoners closely held in the same wing...
...officials abroad used to deny that they knew anything about the fugitive or declare that he was a person of no importance whatever. Meanwhile, the local Communist press reported that he was a thief, a blackmailer, a spy, etc. This time, the Russian Government charged Alexeev with embezzlement and treason, demanded that the U.S. Government turn him over for trial in Russia. This concern led observers to conclude that Fugitive Alexeev was a somewhat bigger bug than he himself had admitted, and that his comments on Soviet life and notables might prove interesting...
...willing to start lending the enormous sums that other nations needed to buy U.S. products, then the U.S. would have to lower its tariffs so that foreign nations could sell more to the U.S. to get the cash to buy. To many incoming Republicans this had the sound of treason to U.S. industry. But the step could be urged on the U.S. for practical, if not idealistic reasons: drained by war, the U.S. for a long while would need far more lead, copper, tin, natural rubber, etc., than it could hope to produce or substitute synthetically. And in the long...
Back in the cabin, pretty Hostess Vina K. Ferguson moved up & down the aisle, settling the passengers for the night. She checked the seating list. The bald, bespectacled Frenchman nodding in his seat was Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Captain Alfred Dreyfus whose false conviction for treason to France outraged the world 52 years ago. The older man was Herman Koegel, native of Rudnik, Poland. In New York his wife and daughter waited for their first reunion since the Gestapo snatched him from them and his small business in Köpenick, Germany, one night...
From Germany, and in the Army's custody, a couple of almost forgotten ex-newspapermen arrived in Washington, D.C. : for wartime broadcasts from Berlin, roly-poly Robert H. Best and hawklike Douglas Chandler were finally to be tried for treason...