Word: treasons
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...some way that sabotage of anything concerned with defense be made a Federal offense if it is not such already and that sentence of death can be made in the discretion of the court. Let them also establish and publicize very severe penalties culminating in death penalty for treason. If it doesn't require legislation, let's give publicity to the possibility that the death penalty would be executed...
...Reader Greenman should be satisfied with the present penalties. For sabotage: a fine up to $10,000 and imprisonment up to ten years ( in wartime up to 30 years). For treason: the death penalty or, at the court's discretion, imprisonment for not less than five years and a fine of not less than...
...tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that he could portray his employer, Mr. Hearst, as an evil-looking dispenser of "seedition" (sowing seeds marked "cowardice" and "treason"). An obvious likeness of Hearst, although it did not bear his name, the cartoon appeared in Hearstpapers. Last week Louis Raemaekers hoped to shape U. S. opinion in World War II as he had in World...
...looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and the townsfolk, who formed the main bulwark of the kingdom; the great feudal nobles . . . played at high treason. ... As for the Protestants, they were a still greater danger, a State within the State." Menacing Spain had its fifth columns among Catholics and Huguenots. The Huguenots conspired with the Protestant Germans and with England, the Kremlin of the Reformation...
...Fifth-column activities have little in common with old-fashioned espionage or sabotage such as the Germans used in World War I to destroy $150,000,000 of U. S. property. Adolf Hitler has perfected "the science of treason'' - which now includes not only the theft or purchase of military and naval secrets, the damaging or destruction of defense equipment, but the demoralizing of public opinion, the conscious exploitation of class and racial differences, the systematic irritation of disputes, the vigorous organization of hatred and suspicion...