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Subjects of the speeches ranged from excerpts out of Sir Walter Raleigh's "The History of the World" to a selection from John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." Lipson recited from "Statement to the Court on Being Convicted of Treason" by Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was hanged during the last war, and Thayer chose parts of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Notes to Be Left on a Cornerstone." Charles took selections from a speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., while Henry quoted a section of Melville's "Moby Dick." Nichols, the first speaker, used T. S. Eliot's poem, "Coriolan...
...perjury, so why should not Government contractors? He ridiculed the King's Prosecutor for demanding the death penalty, ingeniously argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...
...lawyers of his time, Minister of the Marine in the last government of Republican France; after an operation; in Marseille. He unceasingly opposed the Munich policy, fled with Daladier and Mandel to North Africa when the Army collapsed last June, unlike them was never interned to be tried for treason...
...Thomas should remain in the calendar men would be stimulated by his example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of the Sovereign, instructed his Attorney General to file a quo warranto information against him [Thomas a Becket" for usurping the office of a Saint. . . ." Verdict: guilty of rebellion and treason...
Warning of our own lack of planes designed and tested for high-altitude combat, Fulton advised further training of pilots for this type of fighting. He urged a speeding up of aircraft production, and accused labor unions of treason and sabotage in delaying phases of the defense program...