Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discontinued over the summer, the broadcasts were resumed on a daily basis during the August crisis. They were again suspended only when it became high treason under German law to listen to foreign newscasts, and when all powerful receiving sets in Germany had been confiscated...
...Nazi Germany tuning in on foreign broadcasts has always been frowned on; for the last three weeks it has been treason. But right up to zero hour German listeners to U. S. short-wave stations kept writing in, asking for pictures of Benny Goodman, requesting that their names be read over the air. Last week, to protect innocent German necks, NBC's international short-wave division discontinued its weekly German Mail Bag program, halted the flow of pictures of Benny Goodman to Reich homes...
...made ready to reopen his musical, Leave It To Me! on Labor Day. In Leave It To Me's cast definitely ready to reopen with it, was blondined, billowy, 55-year-old Sophie Tucker herself. Ultimatumed A. A. A. A.: If Comedienne Tucker, suspended by its member Equity for "treason," rejoined the cast even at rehearsal, the actors would walk out. Ultimatumed I. A. T. S. E.: If Producer Freedley tried to hire a substitute, the stagehands would walk out. A. A. A. A. President Frank Gillmore rallied his Thespians. His lieutenant, acting Equity President Bert Lytell...
...Jamie fought in campaigns around Lake Champlain and Ticonderoga, while Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter. Hubert framed Jamie on a treason charge, had Purity abducted, kept a couple of jumps ahead until, along about page 800, Jamie's luck began to change...
...ever less than a treason...