Word: turncoat
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Richberg, a graduate of the Law School, is co-author of the Norris LaGuardia Act, the NIRA, aur the Burton, Ball-Hatch bill on labor relations. Because of his work on the last, he has been called a "turncoat" by pro-labor followers who recall his work on the Norris LaGuardia and the National Industrial Recovery Acts...
...pretend to be friends of our country. Many of them are more dangerous than out-and-out enemies. Recently it has become the fashion among certain émigrés, not only the Left but among actual monarchists, to lick our boots. Don't trust them. Once a turncoat, always a turncoat...
...Rogers campaigner went on the air to rattle a few skeletons in the Patterson closet: 1) the left-wing supported candidate was a turncoat Republican; 2) he had been a vociferous isolationist; 3) in 1940 he had called F.D.R. a warmonger...
...Coleman's regulars refused to be drawn afield. They belabored Bob LaFollette as a turncoat, renegade and opportunist. Glowing happily with exertion, they voted to back ex-Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, 35, for the Senate seat. For good measure, they also turned thumbs down on brindled Governor Walter S. Goodland, 83, whose crotchety independence has irked many an old-line party man. For his place, they endorsed gladhanding, grey-haired Delbert J. Kenny, a former state Legion commander...
Molotov accepted the decision-until the executive committee insisted upon admitting Argentina's tawdry, turncoat government on the basis of its recent enforced conversion to the United Nations. At that, Molotov put his Russian back up, rocked the conference with his stern objections...