Word: carpetbagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suitcase full of promotional handbills and a bottle of lubricating oil, he sold $57,500 worth of stock in a nonexistent oil well. The shareholders finally caught on, and Mann was brought to trial; but the judge dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. Encouraged, Mann packed his carpetbag in 1866 and moved on to Mobile as Federal Assessor of Internal Revenue. In 1872 he patented a design for a railroad sleeping car (consisting of a series of stateroomlike compartments) and sailed for Europe. There he leased his cars to rail lines in half a dozen countries. Eleven years later...
...Mayor Ivan Allen, talked glowingly about N.F.L. expansion to Atlanta by the fall of 1966. And baseball's Milwaukee Braves made a hopeful lunge. Already destined to play in Atlanta next year, the Braves offered Milwaukee $500,000 to drop a court injunction and let them carpetbag south to Atlanta's new $18 million stadium, after next month's All-Star Game...
...first articulated this account was a Columbia professor, William A. Dunning, who wrote a series of monographs condemning Radical Reconstruction at the turn of the century. Much of what. Dunning and his followers said was true: the carpetbag governments were indeed faulty, corruption was all too prevalent, the tragedy of the Negro was unquestioned. They made a myth that still persists in American historiography...
Yorty: He has come to the end of the line in Washington. And maybe he thinks he will change his luck back here. But you know, he has a carpetbag filled with empty promises...
...became the soul of moderation- around moderates-yet kept the Goldwaterites happy. Then when Pierre came out against a proposed amendment which, in effect, would repeal most state and local anti-discrimination housing laws, Murphy kept his lip buttoned. The proposition won. Then there was the carpetbag issue, and a TV debate that only proved what late-night TV viewers knew all along-Murph was still the good...