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Most of the witnesses at last week's Senate Commerce Committee hearing cited the wastefulness and expense of the U.S. time snarl. Chief pressure group for reform is the year-old Committee for Time Uniformity, whose chairman, Robert Ramspeck, disclaimed efforts to force Daylight Saving Time on everybody (as in World Wars I and II). "What we do urge, however, is that such jurisdictions as do observe D.S.T. should, in the interest of uniformity, begin and end D.S.T. on the fourth Sundays of April and October of each year...
Speaking at the University of Denver, Ex-Congressman Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, now chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, had a suggestion pointing in the opposite direction: elect two Congressmen from each district-one to legislate and the other to pork-barrel for the folks back home...
...disturbingly rapid succession, two top Democratic Representatives-Virginia's Clifton A. Woodrum and Georgia's Robert Ramspeck-informed the House that they were quitting the Government. Reason: overwork and underpay...
Sedate Bob Ramspeck, headed for a vice-presidency of the Air Transport Association of America, at a reported $25,000 a year, made his point more abruptly. He called congressional salaries "a shame and a disgrace," urged a system of retirement insurance...
Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack and Majority Whip Robert Ramspeck will be back to lead the 79th Congress. The man who never quite gets to be Speaker, Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, was returned easily, to head a leaner minority...