Word: turncoat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reformists. Next, with 174 candidates running last week, was the Reconstruction Party of a Conservative turncoat, the Hon. Henry ("Harry") H. Stevens who was a member of Premier Bennett's Cabinet until he became convinced that "something is wrong" (TIME, Nov. 5). Not gifted with any great powers of analysis, Mr. Stevens was vastly shocked when, as the most active member of a Government commission on Canadian business practices, he learned that these practices are those of laissez-faire. Because big Canadian firms, when Depression enabled them to slash wages, squeeze marginal producers and crush competitors, did all these...
...national chairman, Dr. David Leigh Colvin of New York, thin-haired, blue eyed Methodist who plays politics like a professional. Dr. Colvin warmed up for the convention by addressing a Dry mass meeting. Said he: "The Republican wet plank means that Mr. Hoover is the most conspicuous turncoat since Benedict Arnold. ... It means a hard struggle to save the soul of America...
While elated Wets hailed Mr. Rockefeller into their fold as a convert and a damaging loss to the opposition, Drys damned him for a turncoat. "Unfortunately for your conception and interpretation you live in a stupefying, benumbing atmosphere of New York,"* wrote one-time Congressional Dry-leader William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw from the corn liquor country of Georgia. "Dr. Butler is an unsafe mentor for a high class, unsophisticated Christian like...
Having provided his team with what seemed a safe margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale...