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...this scene came balding, chunky, nervous-quick Robert Wilson Wolcott, 50, who took a swing in the Navy and Bethlehem Steel, worked up to be Lukens' president six years after he mar ried a Huston girl. As the big boss Wolcott began to: 1) specialize in oversized hot rolled plates, 2) set up fabricating subsidiaries to give Lukens a broader market. Both schemes clicked and the huge 206-in. mill was soon thundering out big plates for merchant ships, machine tools, railroad equipment, etc., the fabricating divisions prospered on special castings, all-welded cylinder blocks...
...insisted, stays on the grass until 9 a.m. (10 a.m. daylight saving time), and farmers cannot work their fields until the dew dries. Rising before dawn, they declared, they would be dog-tired long before day's end. Said New York's blue-blood dairyman Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth: "Your net gain is fatigue for the farmer...
Their massed ranks were too much for McCormack, for Speaker Sam Rayburn, for lumbering old Chairman Henry Steagall of the Banking and Currency Committee which had handled the bill. Quipped Republican Jesse P. Wolcott: "If the minority over there on the Democratic side will just cooperate with us, we'll pass some sort of a bill...
Under present law the RFC corporations can buy strategic materials and even manufacture armaments. Under the new law, RFC will be able to set up in any business at all-in competition with existing enterprises. Kewpie-faced Representative Jesse Wolcott shouted to the House: "This bill would . . . make it possible to establish a Fascist state in the U.S. It would give the President and the Federal Loan Administrator the power to do anything they saw fit to do so long as it was incidental to the defense program...
Time, and Mr. Pace's sentiments, worked for Franklin Roosevelt and his bill. Congressional mail had dropped way off; all the other bogey-bills had drawn much heavier mailbags. The House attention stayed on Sam Rayburn and on tall, balding Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.-who made the best House speech of the week, merely pleading for a unity of purpose in grave times...