Word: gossett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discrimination and intolerance soon had a spokesman. Bellowed Texas' Ed Gossett: "The bill rewards the least deserving, the least desirable and the most dangerous of all people who would like to come to this country. . . The cream has been skimmed off those camps time & time & time again," until only "the dregs were left...
Furthermore, D.P.s were all foreigners, and most likely spies and saboteurs to boot. "There is no question in the world but what many of those now in the D.P. camps were planted there deliberately to infiltrate this country," Gossett declaimed. "They came here with the connivance and assistance...of the Red governments from whom they have allegedly fled. All of this business about these poor people not being able to go home because they would be liquidated is pure unadulterated bosh...
...House promptly slapped Ed Gossett and passed the bill with a resounding voice vote. But the bill had a clouded future as it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, by interminable secret hearings, bovine deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...
...Franklin Roosevelt received 432 electoral votes and Thomas E. Dewey 99. Under the Lodge-Gossett system, Roosevelt would have gotten 300,726, Dewey...
Under the Lodge-Gossett system, the electoral vote for 1948 would have been divided thus: Truman, 258.098; Dewey, 221.464; Thurmond, 38.769; and Wallace (who received no electoral vote under the present system), 9.987.† To most citizens, it seemed that some such accurate reflection of the popular vote was long overdue...