Word: carpetbagging
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...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...
...Resident Satirist Frank Lee Wilde observes that Bobby Kennedy is the only person who has not yet been Premier of South Viet Nam-"and that is simply because they have a residence requirement." So Kennedy is traveling around New York State instead, and "at every stop he opens the carpetbag and out jumps Mayor Wagner...
...trademarks are as recognizable abroad as at home. The armies of American executives who became global commuters in 1962 helped to increase the volume of international air travel by 20%. From Scotland to Singapore, the button-down collar was as familiar a symbol of the footloose businessman as the carpetbag in the Reconstruction South. To welcome the new invaders, the Banco di Roma issued a fat catalogue of investment opportunities in English. Berlitz, which had only 300 U.S. executives studying on company time in its language schools in 1952, had 3,000 last year, even though most businessmen sit down...