Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corruption of public trust in high places, acts akin to treason and affecting the entire nation, cannot be tolerated or condoned. It appears conceded as a fact established during several thousand years, and not now to be philosophized away, that the fabric of justice cannot endure if mercy be permitted to set aside the penalties meted out in our gravest criminal cases by our highest law tribunal. . . . Parole issuance would be unjustifiable and incompatible with the welfare of society...
...vanguard of the petition-circulators last week were The Christian Century and The Living Church. Not only did they print the declaration, but both analyzed the case, gave much space to emphasizing its significance. Editorialized The Living Church: "If THIS BE TREASON. . . . We had supposed that it was generally recognized that it is not only our right but our duty to disobey a law which we deem to be immoral and contrary to God's will-and to take the consequences. . . .' Said The Christian Century: "Our readers ... are listening to the almost unanimous voice of the Christian press...
...away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot...
Said he: "I find that the document submitted presupposes the existence of general chaos after the overthrow of the present Government. It is not directed against any government holding office now, and hence affords no ground for a charge of high treason. Rather it sets forth as its premise that legal and constitutional government shall have been overthrown and replaced by the rule of a Commune. This illegal régime would then be replaced by one of the National Socialists who would undertake measures for the restoration of order and security...
Amid furor Leader Adolf Hitler blandly disclaimed responsibility for what his Fascists might be thinking or plotting in Hesse. The attitude of the Attorney General seemed to make it possible for them to plot, with a little ingenuity and camouflage, whatever they please anywhere in Germany without committing treason...