Word: turncoat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a fortnight of mudslinging, Pecora did his best to turn Democrats against Impy as 1) a turncoat who was simply in the race to split the vote for the G.O.P., and 2) a "cowardly" pretender with no talent for administration. When Impy said that he had spurned Tammany's offer of a $28,000 judgeship to stay out of the race, Pecora's backers lamely cried that just the opposite was true: that Impy had demanded four judgeships, one for himself and three for his friends...
...Communism in Cincinnati. Last month the Enquirer finally began an expose under Ratliff's byline, charging that there were 178 members of the Communist Party in Cincinnati, including 16 labor leaders and a local disc jockey. The Enquirer's chief source for its accusations was an unidentified turncoat Communist. Angrily, Cincinnati's disc jockeys and labor leaders insisted that the Enquirer "name names," but the paper declined...