Word: woodrum
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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...
Silver-topped Cliff Woodrum, for 23 years one of the ablest of House members, was bound for a reported $50,000-a-year job as president of the American Plant Food Council. But he wanted a last word before he left: "I have seen men come to this body in the heyday of hopeful youth, and stay under the blistering spotlight of public service until those once raven locks were frosted by the passing of many winters, until that agile step had been slowed and that eagle eye dimmed...
...among other reasons, was that eye dimmed? Salaries, boomed Cliff Woodrum...
...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...
...Woodrum Committee bowed out. Next move was for the House Military Affairs Committee to write a bill and for the House to debate it with the same careful thought...