Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand National Assembly passed a bill whereby any person or persons accused of acting against the sovereignty of the people, whether by word, deed or publication, shall be tried for high treason...
...West Virginia is the Vanguard of the coming struggle that is to put to the test our institutions and our ideals. The story of the last five months of armed uprising and counter uprising with the result that 1800 men are now being tried for murder and treason is well known...
...civilized world read with unmixed indignation of the execution of six Greek leaders, military and civil, on a charge of high treason,--a charge based, it is claimed, on their defeat at the hands of the Turks, at the same time people in the United States are protesting scarcely less vigorously against the pardon of William Bross Lloyd, millionaire convicted of sedition, after he had served eight days of a five year prison sentence...
...hard to determine where negligence and foolishness stop, and where treason begins: In Greece the men executed may or may not have been guilty of real treason; their death was brought about by mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical. What of Illinois? There too, it can be said with good reason that the charges against the millionaire radical and his associates were due in part to national war hysteria...
...Austro-German armies in Galicia. After a long period of arduous fighting, in which his health suffered severely, he was appointed Military Prosecuting Attorney in charge of the trial of General Souschomlimor, former Russian Minister. At the conclusion of this trial, at which the General was convicted of treason and sentenced to imprisonment for life, Lieutenant Brasol was sent by the Russian Government to England. He remained there nine weeks, and sailed for America in August 1916, as one of the four members of the Anglo-Russian Committee which was in supreme control of all orders for munitions...