Word: treasonously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa since 1942, ostensibly to build a trans-Sahara pipeline for edible oil, Bedaux was nabbed there recently on a charge of trading with the enemy, brought to the U.S. by air, faced the possibility of a treason trial. Manhattan's Bedaux Co., Inc., pulled a quick name-change on learning of Bedaux's suicide, asserted he had not been connected with them since...
Until last week a robber-baron-conscious faction in the State Department had persistently acted as if any cooperation with industry smacked of treason. And U.S. international oil companies have similarly regarded any Government interference in their policies as an affront-at least until they got into trouble abroad. Now there is at least basis for hope that the two can work together...
...high-ceilinged room where the French Consultative Assembly meets in Algiers, François de Menthon, Commissioner of Justice, began a speech. He spoke of 288 Vichyites who had been accused of treason, collaboration and other crimes against France and Frenchmen, but had not yet been tried and punished. No sound came from the 80-odd Assemblymen...
...handsome, substantial widow who owns a lush farm near Peoria. When she first heard of Clarence Streit's plan for lumping the world's democracies into a "Union Now," she said: "Oh, gee! Is that patriotic?" But once convinced that Goodman Streit was not advocating treason, she pitched in, contributing both money and quiet organizing work...
...fires on four successive nights. Some exhibitors write the parents of offenders, but "in the more exclusive suburbs they are fearful of offending... " Ushers, usually kids themselves, are usually helpless. One Cleveland manager "turned the tide" by exhibiting in his lobby a ravaged seat under the slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened purses in the dark, and pocketed the contents." Police got their child when the six-year-old appeared at the ticket window with a $5 bill...