Word: mugwumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...
...Mugwump. Webster always wanted and meant to be a political cartoonist. He shifted to such relatively universal phenomena as a boy's fondness for a dog, or a wife's inability to be gracious when her husband wants a stag vacation, because they syndicated more easily, raised fewer quarrels (of a sort that involved furious letters-to-the-editor) and made more money than cartoons which took a strong stand on the tariff. As for taking a weak stand on the tariff, or on any other political issue, that was for Webster out of the question. Good political...
House members were still fresh from their month's visit home, whence many a mugwump had crossed over into the interventionist camp, and even fresher from the heaviest victory for any Roosevelt World War II policy move, the crashing 328-67 vote last week for passage of the $5,985,000,000 new Lend-Lease funds. If the House whooped through the Armed-Ships bill, the Senate could not fail to be impressed. This was the strategists...
Eugene Lyons has been poking at the snakes again. The Red Decade (subtitle: The Stalinist Penetration of America) is the liveliest and most complete account to date of the "grotesque and incredible revolution" whereby the U.S. Communist Party, once a mob of mugwump Marxists led by nonentities, entrenched itself in the leadership of the C.I.O. and in strategic spots in the Federal Government. Eugene Lyons tells how the Commies managed by grace of the depression, the widespread fear of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and the New Deal to capture key positions in U.S. publishing, radio, movies and the stage...