Word: gossett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the election of Presidents is the privilege of the states, it seemed unlikely that the system of electoral votes would ever be abolished. But a constitutional amendment proposed by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Texas' Congressman Ed Gossett would eliminate block voting. Under its terms, electoral votes of each state would be divided in proportion to the popular vote, and a mere plurality in the electoral college would be sufficient for election...
...other four: Indiana's Raymond Willis, Idaho's Charles Gossett, Maryland's George Radcliffe, Minnesota's Henrik Shipstead...
...said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years. Last week Wildman Little did turn a trick. He paid $12 million to Benjamin Brown Gossett for his mills in Charlotte, N.C. and Anderson, S.C., thus adding twelve southern mills to Textron's 13 in New England, and more than doubling Textron's cotton and rayon capacity. But Little still has to perform his main trick-making Textron the most integrated and most profitable U.S. textile company...
...fill the vacancy left by the death of Idaho's Republican Senator John Thomas, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles G. Gossett exercised a governor's well-used prerogative. Sturdy Charles Gossett, a well-to-do farmer whose political thinking plows a furrow well to the right of center, resigned his governorship and let his successor appoint him to the vacancy on Capitol Hill...
With Democrat Gossett replacing Republican Thomas, the Senate balance-of-power is right back where it started after the 1944 elections. Although five Senators have died and two resigned since the elections, the Democrats still have 56, the Republicans...