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Thirteen years a Congressman, Georgia's serious, bespectacled Robert Ramspeck has sweated hard and long for civil service and fair labor legislation. Through it all he has been a loyal New Dealer. Last week, partly as a reward and partly because his chunky shoulders could take it, he got a bigger job. Beaming with pleasure, grey-shocked Majority Leader John W. McCormack tapped him to be Democratic whip, to succeed Pennsylvania's late Patrick J. Boland...
Curly-haired Pat Boland hardly ever talked in the House, worked quietly in the halls and cloakrooms which are the whip's domain. Fervent Bob Ramspeck has made many impassioned speeches for his favorite causes. But he also knows the slick-floored, smoky, gossip-filled cloakrooms as few Congressmen...
...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...
...Ramspeck: "If the cap fits, the lady can wear...