Word: treasons
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...first time on German soil. As a further precaution, Der Führer permitted Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh to land at fearsome Staaken, the military airfield ten miles from Berlin which an ordinary German civilian would no more think of approaching unbidden than he would think of committing High Treason...
...Herbalist Jerome Bannigan (alias George Andrew McMahon) was arraigned as "McMahon" last week under the Treason Act of 1842, enacted after shots had been fired in the general direction of Queen Victoria. He faces seven years' imprisonment if convicted of having "willfully presented near to the person of the King a firearm "with intent" to break the public peace...
...learns that she is engaged to one. Starting with this situation, which might lead almost anywhere, I Stand Condemned develops, presumably from sheer force of cinematic habit, into semi-conventional spy melodrama. A complicated web of circumstantial evidence makes it look as if the young officer were guilty of treason. The profiteer gives the testimony that clears...
...conviction. There was a highly involved constitutional debate. Judge Ritter of Florida was a Republican appointed by Calvin Coolidge. Republican Senator Austin of Vermont pointed out that the Constitution says, ". . . all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed, had not been proved against Judge Ritter. Democratic Senator George of Georgia pointed to another sentence in the Constitution: "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior. . . ." If Senators believed Judge Ritter...
...might be publicly hanged in Spain. James would have done that, too, if public opinion had let him. Instead he put Ralegh through the farce of another trial, and when Ralegh's brilliant self-defense made the prosecution look silly, had him condemned on the old charge of treason-from which he had been reprieved but never technically pardoned...