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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...practice of unit voting (i.e., of giving a state's entire block of electoral votes to the candidate with a plurality in that state) always raised the possibility that.a candidate might get a plurality of the popular vote and still lose the election. It had happened three times in the past. Unit voting also canceled the effectiveness of minority voters, encouraged the one-party system in the South, and gave big states undue power at political conventions...
...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...
Smooching, Etc. In the '30s, a popular Tin Pan Alley song once told the world what happens "when it's dark on Observatory Hill." It still gets dark there, but most of the sex at Madison since the war has been domesticated. One out of every five students is married (prewar: one in 21). In the G.I. generation, sex doesn't even seem to be a favorite bull-session topic...
Appreciated but less popular were John Cobb's* scrutiny of U.S.A.A.F. men & manners in wartime England, The Gesture (also a first novel), James Gould Cozzens' Guard of Honor, an admirable study of base life at a U.S. flying field, and Theodor Plievier's gruesome Stalingrad, a broad-scale battle picture whose forceful "documentary" slant made it more fact than fiction...