Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist regime. They themselves avow it and Colonel François de La Rocque announces as imminent a seizure of power by his Croix de Feu. Not one of the men who have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously as do the chiefs of the leagues!" If the Government is not aware of these facts," concluded Old Guernut, "I will place it on trial for ignorance! If it does know them I will place it on trial for complaisance! (Applause). . . . In a civilized society...
...this be treason, let the White House shiver...
...sent back his report to Washington. President Jefferson issued a proclamation warning citizens not to give aid to Burr's plan. Shortly a detachment of Virginia militia raided and looted the island, just missed catching its master. Before next spring, Aaron Burr had been arrested three times for treason in Kentucky and Mississippi. Blennerhassett was arrested twice on the same charge, the second time in Kentucky, where his case was defended by a promising young lawyer named Henry Clay. There followed the great Burr treason trial in the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond, with Chief Justice John Marshall...
...right moment an incident only to be ended by gunfire and aerial bombs. But there was also another hypothesis worthy of the Araki Brothers in their calmer moments. When all China was taken off the silver standard fortnight ago by Finance Minister Kung, he threatened to prosecute for treason any Chinese who did not send his white metal to the Government's banks. If that threat works it means, among other things, that the Japanese forces now predominant in North China will see all their silver slip through their fingers to Nanking. One way to stop such a slip...
...days after three bullets put the Premier of China to bed (see above), Acting Premier & Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung abruptly "Nationalized" the age-old basis of Chinese money, silver. Chinese could still hoard all the gold they pleased, but Dr. Kung made it treason for Chinese to hold silver which he ordered into the Government's banks. To a nation that has never had any great confidence in paper, the Chinese Government decreed that its paper is legal tender and not redeemable in either silver or gold...