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TIME Magazine, Monday, Oct. 10, 1949 After twelve weeks, 1,500,000 words of testimony and 78¼ hours of deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw under the conviction: five years in prison and $10,000 fine; the maximum: death. Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children *The others: Nazi Propagandists Douglas Chandler and Robert Best; Army Deserter Martin James Monti, who became a Nazi Storm Trooper; U.S.-born Tomoya ("the Meatball") Kawakita, wartime interpreter in a Japanese prison camp; Mildred Elizabeth ("Axis Sally") Gillars. Indicted but never brought to trial: prizewinning Poet Ezra Pound, now in a Washington insane asylum.