Word: carpetbagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" him from the Senate. This classic political mistake got Cotton Ed re-elected just as the people of South Carolina were prepared to throw him out. For Cotton Ed exploited the "carpetbag meddling" for all it was worth. Said he, with gallus-snapping righteousness: "You can buy a rubber stamp for a dollar, but you can't buy a man for any price. God made me a man before South Carolina made me a Senator." After that, Cotton Ed's hatred for the President extended to everything that Franklin Roosevelt...
After the carpetbag era, the family moved to Manhattan. Young Bernie went to City College, acquired a Phi Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...