Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction. There was a highly involved constitutional debate. Judge Ritter of Florida was a Republican appointed by Calvin Coolidge. Republican Senator Austin of Vermont pointed out that the Constitution says, ". . . all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed, had not been proved against Judge Ritter. Democratic Senator George of Georgia pointed to another sentence in the Constitution: "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior. . . ." If Senators believed Judge Ritter...
When Elizabeth died and James I, who hated tobacco and feared Spain, succeeded her, Ralegh was left in a dangerous spot. Spain wanted his head, and James was more than willing to comply. On a cooked-up charge of treason, Ralegh was tried and condemned to death. On the eve of execution he wrote his famed farewell to his wife: "First. I send you all the thanks my heart can conceive, or my pen express, for your many troubles and cares taken for me. which-though they have not .taken effect as you wished-yet my debt...
...might be publicly hanged in Spain. James would have done that, too, if public opinion had let him. Instead he put Ralegh through the farce of another trial, and when Ralegh's brilliant self-defense made the prosecution look silly, had him condemned on the old charge of treason-from which he had been reprieved but never technically pardoned...
...King Edward cheerfully lent his Household Trumpeters to the old folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
...brought in his bed to court at Charlestown, Va. (now Charles Town, W. Va.), to hear sentence passed. A New York Tribune reporter was nearby. "Brown sat up in bed, while the verdict was rendered." he telegraphed his paper. "The jury found him guilty of treason, advising and conspiring with slaves and others to rebel, and for murder in the first degree. Brown lay down quickly and said nothing. There was no demonstration of any kind." Recording John Brown's execution, the Tribune somewhat jauntily noted: "The old man was swung off at 11:15 precisely...