Word: turncoat
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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...
Next day, Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, turncoat Socialist who last year engineered his party's merger with the Communists, hastily put in his two zlotys' worth. He announced that Vice Minister of Agriculture Stanislaw Kowalewski had been fired as a "hypocrite...
...Turncoat. In Snow Hill, N.C., Virginia police who had searched more than two years for Escaped Convict Tommy Hill finally found him working as a guard at a North Carolina state prison camp...
...credited with squelching the Communist uprising of 1918. Fritz, the son, opposed Hitlerism at first and spent years in a concentration camp, but finally weakened and worked under the Nazis as a publishing house director. He is now generally known as a drunkard, a weakling and a turncoat. Many Germans expect the Russians to give him the heaveho as soon as they have exploited his name...