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Word: treasonously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary's Primate for "treason, espionage and dealings in the black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: For Treason | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...place in 1943 when the monarch, feeling that Hitler's goose is cooked, is ready to talk turkey with the Social Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with Hoederer and informs on her husband. The husband finally kills Hoederer in a spasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...partial answer could be given. Quebec law forbids the licensing of doctors convicted of a felony, and Montel was convicted of treason, in absentia, by French courts. But he was recommended for a license by Msgr. Ferdinand Vandry, Rector of Laval University, where he teaches surgery. And it was Msgr. Vandry who recommended him to the nuns who operate Sorel's Hôtel-Dieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Veteran's Preference | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Same Old Ez | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...John Brown, the famed Kansas abolitionist, was tried, convicted, and hanged for treason to the state of Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Not Worth Living | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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