Word: treasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after Congressman Louis T. McFadden of the 13th Pennsylvania District had accused President Hoover of treason on the War Debts last winter, Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Governor's wife and no political friend of the President, announced her Republican candidacy for the House from Mr. McFadden's district. Last week 15th District voters renominated Mr. McFadden who returned to the House to receive an ovation from his colleagues...
...proposal, Mr. Roosevelt punctuated his address with ringing names drawn from the histories of both parties. Concluding that his was a plea, "not for a class control, but for a true concert of interest," Mr. Roosevelt brought the house to its feet by a dramatic appeal, "if that be treason, make the most...
...considers Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh guilty of petty treason? No-one but Mr. Wagner. Who would consider him guilty of murder if. he refused to pay a ransom? Everyone but Mr. Wagner. The murder not only of Charles Augustus Jr. but possibly the murder of his wife and unborn child...
...called underworld, the majority of people do not. The law should see to it that the instigators of this crime are harshly and promptly dealt with and that no ransom is paid. The law should not be dictated to by a half-crazed father who is guilty of ''petty treason...
...Petty Treason" Why petty? Such conspicuous payment of ransom would cause hundreds of additional kidnappings, and always a large percentage of loss of life for those kidnapped. Such encouragement of crime is in itself a gross, not a petty, affair. "Egregious crime" would seem more completely descriptive than "petty treason...