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...House so many Congressmen rushed alibis into print that the galleries wondered if anybody had been present when the bill was up. Uprose Illinois' blonde, blue-eyed Jessie Sumner, to pin the blame on Georgia's patient Robert Ramspeck, the bill's sponsor. Miss Sumner had not known that the bill provided pensions for Congressmen; why hadn't Ramspeck said...
...Upjumped Ramspeck, his patience gone. In the Senate the bill had been debated fully, fully reported in the papers, then discussed and approved again by the House. Cried Ramspeck: "Why did you not object [then]? I say that to every other member who has gotten up on this floor and demagogued about this bill...
Under the aegis of Georgia's patient, tactful Congressman Robert Ramspeck, the bill would authorize the President to seize a strike-harassed defense plant as a last resort. Ramspeck argued, "I certainly think it is a reasonable, middle-of-the-road bill," but many a fire-snorting Congressman was in no reasonable mood, and Mr. Ramspeck conceded that the Norton bill would not please a lot of them...
...Robert Ramspeck, D. Ga., ranking majority member of the House Labor Committee, was assigned to draft the measure. He said it would "prevent strikes in defense industries unless the employer wants to lose his plant or the worker wants to surrender his rights...
Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill with Robert Ramspeck's fountain pen. Then Ramspeck cautioned reporters not to expect miracles; the measure's full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...