Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimes for which the penal code inflicts life imprisonment, namely: high treason, incendiarism, causing explosions or floods and damaging railway lines shall be punishable by death. Similarly capital punishment may be inflicted in a case of lesser treason, for inciting to riot and committing acts of violence in connection therewith...
...facts." The Senate's lone Farmer-Laborite Minnesota's Shipstead exploded: "If any official of the United States Government has led agents of foreign governments to believe we will cancel debts owed to us for cancellation of Reparations he is very nearly guilty of treason to the United States! He certainly is guilty of swindling foreign governments...
...Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...
...daughter-in-law, ex-Crown Princess Cecilie. What she said did not amount to much but she joined in Hochs! and handclaps when General Bock von Wuelfingen went the whole hog, demanded the end of the German Republic and restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. Though this was certainly treason, Dresden police made nothing of it, stood about grinning, saluted ex-Crown Princess Cecilie when she went home...
...Staff meeting in Dublin, measures to meet the crisis are harangued. The politicians, represented in the army by Commandant Malone, want only to pull their chestnuts out of the fire; but Allen, to his own surprise, proposes Catherine's plan. Malone's men accuse him of treason. Before they can court-martial him he escapes with Brigid and Catherine, to the friendly aviation base at Rathdonnel...