Word: blackleg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned him to Parliament after he deserted the Labor Party and formed the National Government only because he was unopposed in Seaham by a Conservative candidate and because the Laborite coal miners' wives voted for silver-haired, throbbing-voiced Ramsay while their husbands called him a traitor blackleg, and worse...
...Seaham hurried Eldest Daughter Ishbel MacDonald, no candidate herself, to organize her father's campaign in advance of his arrival. On his 65th birthday the tall, tired, silver-haired Scot breakfasted at No. 10 Downing Street, then dashed to Seaham, began the bitterest campaign of his life. "Blackleg!"', a few hostile Laborites shouted at him (equivalent to U. S. union men crying "Scab...