Word: ramspeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Ramspeck Committee used A.A.F. figures to support the men's pleas, found that they are a sizable group-some 6,000 instructors alone-who could be trained for the work the WASPs are doing in about half the time and at half the cost...
Jackie Cochran maintained an anxious silence while Hap Arnold talked on. The committee kept its report in its desk. Ramspeck had not decided whether to release it officially or let the cold facts come out in debate when Cochran's WASPs are tossed onto the House floor...