Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onetime Prime Minister General Alexanderu Averescu announced his intention of defending his former subordinate, M. Manoilescu, in his trial before a court-martial, charged with high treason...
...open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping, no doubt, that the affair would blow over, but ready to seize upon any overt treason with a severity that has, as events have turned out, gained him the sobriquet of Mexico's man of iron...
...which, pieced together, proved to be a letter describing items of secret military information obviously delivered to Colonel Schwarzoppen by some French officer who had turned traitor. Captain Dreyfus was a Jew and as such was held in suspicion by the higher French military authorities. He was accused of treason, convicted by a military court and sent to He du Diable, convict-establishment off the coast of French Guiana...
...gain temperance converts, accepted speaking offers, became rich. When she spoke in burlesque theatres she considered herself to be "like Christ among the publicans." In 1903 she tried, unsuccessfully, to see President Roosevelt; then entered the Senate Gallery, sold miniature hatchets. When she rushed into the Senate Chamber shouting: "Treason, anarchy, conspiracy-Discuss these!" she was arrested, fined $25. In 1911 she entered a sanitarium at Leavenworth where she died the following June of paresis. Dying, she asked that on her tombstone should be inscribed the epitaph: "She hath done what she could...
...case. Whether or not they go to the electric chair, even in their own minds, long ago, has ceased to be as important as whether or not criminal trials are to be decided on the evidence or on race and class prejudice. Dreyfus was convicted of high treason, not because he committed high treason, but because he was a Jew; and there are many people in the present case who believe that Sacco and Vanzetti have been convicted and sentenced for murder, not because they committed murder, but because they are radicals...