Word: copperheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week reality caught up with Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From his hideaway on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he offered his services to the Army Air Corps from which he resigned last April, after Frank lin Roosevelt had pegged him as a new-day "Copperhead." At his age (40 next month), Lindbergh probably could not get a job as a combat flyer. If he were given a commission-for which, as a new applicant, he would have to wait his turn-he could serve his country usefully as a specialist in aviation. He knows a lot more about that subject...
...Civil War Gray's nephew by marriage, John Stephenson, turned the Plain Dealer into a roaring copperhead sheet. The small remains were expensively pieced together by red-bearded William Wirt Armstrong, who supported Andrew Johnson, fought the 14th and 15th Amendments, opposed woman suffrage on the grounds that it would turn them into "political swagerees, with a love of wine, whiskey and lager beer...
During the Civil War, did the North protest against the renowned patrol work of the Alabama, in the lend-lease arrangement between the South and the British? If so, was Lincoln a Copperhead...
Even the President's critics admitted that pruning the overpadded Reserve was necessary, but, coming the week after he had called Lindbergh a Copperhead, this Presidential potshot looked to many too much like personal revenge. It appeared more like revenge to them when they remembered the days when General Johnson, red-faced, thick-framed, husky-voiced, had been, except the President himself, the most arresting figure in the New Deal...