Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belated interest in Johnson's Dictionary, is a masterpiece of dignified resentment against patronage. Though he himself defined a pension as ''an allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," Johnson gratefully accepted a Government pension. Kingsmill pours a little cold water on the glowing friendship between Johnson and the Thrales, suggests that Johnson sponged on them, that they exhibited him, that neither party was really happy...
...accused Torgler, Popoff. Dimitroff and Taneff are acquitted. The accused Lubbe, on ground of High Treason in connection with seditious arson and attempted simple arson is condemned to death and to perpetual loss of civil rights...
...quite unaided by any of the other defendants, and since the main objective of the trial is to prove the guilt of the Reds and the white-as-driven-snow innocence of the Nazis, it is necessary to have one self-declared Communist at any rate up for high treason in danger of his life under a law passed after the crime had been committed...
With workmanly pride the Nazi Secret Police announced last week that they had just arrested 2,300 Communist suspects throughout Germany, confiscated 2,500 tons of "illegal literature," expect to prosecute 1,000 of their captives for high treason...
...crumpled up and died. Last week kicking Captain Rodriguez was tried by a Mexican court-martial, sentenced to be shot. "This is the first death sentence in the Mexican Army since 1927," announced a careful spokesman for the Court. "In that year General Rueda Quijana was shot for high treason...