Word: ramspeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ramspeck is a sober, studious Congressman with an affable air which hides a bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...
...Ramspeck and his committee went ferreting. They found out that the WASPs, earnest, hard-working and rule-abiding, are nevertheless an expensive experiment. Minimum cost of complete training for a WASP is $20,000-not $12,150, as the War Department once estimated. Of 1,313 women who have gone to WASP training schools, only 541 have graduated; 281 have flunked out; the rest are still in training. Only three WASPs (all of whom were seasoned pilots before they joined) are qualified to fly four-engine bombers. Nineteen WASPs have been killed, eleven in operational flights after graduation...
...week on the West Coast. Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan's Ferguson, South Carolina's Maybank; from the House: Minnesota's Judd, Pennsylvania's Wright, Maine's Hale, Georgia's Ramspeck, Oklahoma's Monroney, Indiana's La Follette and Massachusetts' Herter-some of the best brains in Congress...
...opponent of spoils politics, he fought long for civil-service extension, became the darling of reform-minded women voters. In the last two years Ramspeck-sponsored bills have put some 500,000 Federal employes under civil service. As ranking Democratic member of the Labor Committee, liberal Bob Ramspeck helped carry the ball for the Wagner and Wage & Hour Acts. His only slip: this spring he championed the hapless Pensions-for-Congress bill. Faced with public revolt, Congress changed its mind. Ramspeck relented but argued solidly that the bill was "misunderstood," that Congressmen should be pensioned off the same as other...
...Ramspeck's friends know him as a conscientious worker who shuns social life, stays at home with his pipe and books. Even Georgia Neighbor Gene Cox, with whom Ramspeck has tangled on many a labor bill, praised Neighbor Ramspeck's ability. Pleased, too, was Leader McCormack, of Massachusetts. Said he of Southern Bob Ramspeck: "He has a national mind...