Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From anyone except the Dictator this would have sounded like flat treason and "deviation from the Party line," which has always been to consider first the collective interest. Continued Comrade Stalin's new and contrariwise directive as announced by Comrade Yakovlev: "It is better to admit openly and honestly that there should be private housekeeping on collective farms-small but private. . . . As long as family and children exist, these interests must not be neglected...
...Delaware, Indiana, and Tennessee both houses of the State legislatures have passed a bill described by its supporters as "a commendable effort to outlaw the Communist Party." The bill, which advocates the barring from state ballots of political parties preaching "sedition or treason," or the "overthrow of the government by force or violence," is pending in eleven other states at present. The most vigorous supporters of the bill are the American Legion and the Eiks, both having been inflamed by the Sage of San Simeon's anti-radical editorials. Opposing the bill are the vast propaganda resources of the American...
...little freedom in our universities now; some of them, like the University of Pittsburgh are unfit for any intellectually honest teacher and have sold out to big business. To permit the success of these efforts to ferret out so-called radicals with the students or teachers would be treason to the entire teaching profession. It is as base as it is un-American. Harvard, which, under Lowell, upheld the tradition of academic freedom during the World War better than any other university, will not yield...
...force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Berlin correspondents were afraid to cable stories about the Nazi air bases now being rushed to completion near the Capital, understood that a single reference to them in a dispatch would cause the correspondent to be tried for "espionage and treason...
...iron Nazi secrecy clamped down, the Sosnowski case became a lurid legend, strictly censored in the German Press, totally baffling to correspondents until they were able to tell the U. S. Embassy that languishing in jail and possibly about to be beheaded for "treason" was an inoffensive young U. S. music student, Miss Isobel Lillian Steele. Diplomatic pressure forced Germany to disgorge Miss Steele (TIME, Jan. 7), even the secret police finally admitting that she was guilty of nothing. But the music student had been innocently acquainted with Baroness von Berg, proceeded to spill all sorts of Sosnowski facts...