Word: treasonous
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...Chicago Tribune seemed like its old self again last week: Colonel Robert McCormick was accused of treason...
...since Indiana's Jesse David Bright was expelled in 1862 for treason has a U.S. Senator been found unfit to sit in the Senate. Last week after twelve months' study the Senate Privileges & Elections Committee recommended that North Dakota's beady-eyed Senator William Langer should be denied a seat in the Senate, on grounds of moral turpitude...
Died. Hanns Kerrl, 54, Nazi Minister of Church Affairs; in Berlin. As Prussian Minister of Justice in 1933-34 he introduced the crime of "race treason"-mixing Jewish and "Aryan" blood. He was made Minister of Church Affairs in 1935, given the job of bringing the churches under full State control. He failed, and most of his power was taken from...
Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...
...House, Texas' Sam M. Russell, lank and rawboned, making his first full-dress speech, rose to accuse Lewis of treason, added: "Surely common sense dictates that we can't allow dictator-minded individuals ... to stifle the very breath of our vital industries. ... I feel that now-not next year . . . but now. we should prepare to deal drastically with such men as John Lewis." Virginia's tall, dour-faced Howard Worth Smith summoned some 30 fellow Democrats to his office. They arrived with stealth, dripping with fury, to debate how they might push through Congress...