Word: carpetbagging
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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...
Sirs: . . . Fredericksburg residents are against the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill as we have not Civil forgotten War'' that and we the were the Carpetbag "Cockpit of Reconstruction that followed...
...bushy-haired Edward Eugene Cox of Camilla, Ga., whose most notable efforts during 12 years in Congress were confined to peanut growers' legislation until Labor got under his skin last winter. Congressman Cox recently proclaimed: "I warn John L. Lewis and his Communistic cohorts that no second 'carpetbag expedition' in the Southland, under the red banner of Soviet Russia . . . will be tolerated." He also accused Madam Perkins of treason. By last week Congressman Cox had slipped so far away from the New Deal that he was confusedly damning Supreme Court Nominee Hugo Black as an "anarchist...
...dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike; that the era of carpetbag rule in the South, far from being a period of political scandal and corruption, was ''the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen...