Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead Acts. Some of the anti-prohibition minority suggested that such a ruling might interfere with the verdict of the juries if they felt deportation too severe a penalty. But inasmuch as violation of the Volstead Act is an attack on the Constitution and so high treason, the House passed the bill...
...pack" applied derisively and indiscriminately to you and me leaves a most disagreeably sour taste. In its current issue, the "New York Nation" comments editorially on the case of Professor James McKeen Cattell of Columbia University, who was dismissed in 1917 "without proper charges or heating, accused of 'sedition, treason, and opposition to the enforcement of the law of the United States'" Subsequently, he sued the trustees for libel and demanded the pension to which he was nominally untitled. An award of 245,000 was recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether in 1917 the jury...
...latter's testimony is interesting. Starting with a condemnation of the Rhodes Scholarship and the Carnegie foundation, he includes a few words on some standard histories and ends with a peroration on what he evidently considers the treason of descendents of certain Revolutionary heroes...
...Karl Liebknecht, a young man, not to ten, but to seven years, for saying "This war is Imperialistic and it will be a good thing for us if we are defeated." The British Empire gave Bertrand Russell, the distinguished mathematician, two years or thereabouts for interfering with conscription, a treason Debs was not guilty...
...Mason's perspicacity in discerning that an intelligent man with "Honest Beliefs" can expiate his treason only by being kept locked up, is commendable. I agree with his inference that only by confining such a man can he be made harmless. Mr. Mason, who is well aware that ours is a government by, not of, the majority, compels my respect by the clearness with which he perceives that the "thousands, even millions" who venture from the good road trod by the respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word...