Word: gopsters
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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After buttonholing plain voters and political dopesters in the South, the Southwest and the Midwest, California's Kyle Palmer, veteran GOPster and political editor of the Republican Los Angeles Times, offered the G.O.P. high command a "simple, sure-fire formula to beat the New Deal." The formula: "Down with the Washington bureaucrats...
Billed as a "Republican Revival" (which struck many a GOPster as libelous), the meeting was engineered by smooth, stocky Chicago lawyer William J. Grace, chairman of an organization now called the Citizens' U.S.A. Committee (formerly the Citizens' Keep America Out of War Committee). But Illinois' top-drawer Republicans, although mainly anti-Willkie, shunned the Mural Room, looked prim and pained. The Great Revival was off to a weak start...
This was more like it. Indiana Republicans who had feared that Wendell Willkie was a Democrat in G.O.P. clothing rose and cheered. Next day a reception was hastily cooked up; Wendell Willkie's old enemies came in droves, no GOPster dared stay away. Then came the final tribute: State Chairman Ralph Gates asked Wendell Willkie for his picture, he wanted to hang it in State Headquarters...