Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that made me I'd do anything for him that did not involve my duty to the farmers. Alabama's Senator Black: This man . . . has brains. He has been charged with it. ... He has dared to raise his voice in favor of old age pensions. . . . Treason! Treason! Let him be taken to the stake! Let the inquisition be turned upon him! Virginia's Senator Byrd: I contend that he has committed illegal acts which he is asking the Congress of the U. S. to ratify. ... It is inconceivable to me that a man can make a speech...
...strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking women as has been suggested, kept a buxom mistress, Lucie of the Alexanderplatz. Also cleaned up last week was the biggest high treason trial ever held in Germany, with no defendants. German papers reported the trial only on the first day. After that Communist defendants by the dozens began retracting confessions of treason which they dared to accuse Nazis of having exacted from them with pistols, bludgeons and castor oil. A comparative fizzle...
...ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy finally rid Rome of Caligula, only a threat of death from the Palace...
...Wall, Last week a mammoth trial of in Communists on charges of "preparing to commit high treason,'' opened at Breslau. Soviet Russia's mounting resentment against Nazi abuse of Communists and Communism was reflected to a certain extent in the total of Russian imports from Germany in the first quarter of 1934: 21,000,000 marks as against 181,000,000 marks for the same period...
...they had real news to read in their papers. Dissatisfied with the results of the famed Reichstag Fire trial in which all but one of the five defendants were acquitted, the Nazi government announced the establishment of a new "People's Court" to take all cases of high treason from the penal division of the Supreme Court...