Word: treasonable
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...thoroughgoing Fascist during the '30s and early '40s, pro-German and antiSemitic, a broadcaster of propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. He was released in 1958. Last May, Pound was nominated for the $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal by the literary commit tee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The nomination was rejected by a vote of the governing council. The academy president, Physics Professor Harvey Brooks of Harvard, wrote...
...always functioned as the Justice Department's investigative agency. The director is charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to other federal agencies, such as postal cases and narcotics crimes. The bureau has jurisdiction over some 180 investigative matters, including espionage, sabotage, treason, kidnaping, extortion, bank robbery and civil rights, and of course has powers of arrest for violations. As Hoover saw it, "The FBI is strictly a fact-finding agency, responsible in turn to the Attorney General, the President, the Congress and in the last analysis, the American people...
...embodied was a thoroughly disreputable part of the American past. It is the history of the "Red Raids," of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, of the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans, of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, of the Hollywood Ten, of the blacklist, of "twenty years of treason...
...critical or popular success in films or the theater for years. His second novel, The Arrangement, was a huge bestseller, but the movie he made of it was a costly debacle. More recently, books about the blacklist, like Eric Bentley's Thirty Years of Treason, have revived the memory of Kazan's cooperation with congressional Communist-hunters in the early '50s. One looks to his work for reflections of these crises but finds only camouflage and confusion. The Arrangement, apparently intended as a kind of confessional, became instead a convoluted piece of self-justification...
...Aide H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman charged that Nixon's Democratic opponents favored installing a Communist regime in Saigon; critics of the President's Viet Nam proposals, said Haldeman, were "consciously aiding and abetting the enemy of the United States." That language came close to the constitutional definition of treason, and angry Democrats and editorial writers denounced Haldeman. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler told clamoring reporters that Haldeman had been speaking only for himself, which was probably technically true. Haldeman, who is in effect Nixon's chief of staff, is a hard-lining conservative and political naif who is fiercely...