Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been at war," said a U. S. district judge in Washington last week to the only U. S. Naval officer ever accused of turning spy, "your acts would have been treason, punishable by the extreme penalty...
...death. Up to about four months ago, Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland was too despicable, too foul, to be put adequately into words by even the most picturesque proletarian...
...Sept. 19, 1803 an impetuous, unpractical, pock-marked young Irishman stood in a Dublin courtroom charged with high treason. His name was Robert Emmet and his crime was planning, with French help, an abortive Irish rebellion. Those were the days when orators were orators, and Robert Emmet's speech, "taken from the notes of a celebrated Stenographist," has been the favorite forensic floral piece of Irish-American ward politicians and barroom declaimers for 100 years...
...latest effort to link the White House and the Kremlin. Here Elliott Roosevelt is accused of taking exhorbitant commissions from the Fokker company for the sale of aircraft to Russia. It should interest American voters to learn that while a relative of the President is guilty of treason if he sells airplanes to the Russian government, the owners of the Liberty League, the DuPonts, may be partners in German munitions plants without being one degree less patriotic than usual...
...Subtitled The Death Struggle of the Federalists, most of the book's 538 pages detail the decline of the brilliant party that, disregarding the warnings of Hamilton, went in for a suicidal policy of revenge, turned from an obstructionist campaign to forth right slander, from slander to treason, with "the destruction of the Union as a party policy...