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...resignation of able Harold Smith as Director of the U.S. Budget (TIME, July 1) added one more chore to the President's appointment troubles. Last week Harry Truman plugged the $10,000-a-year budget hole in a familiar...
Also lost in the House was a provision to give each member of Congress an $8,000-a-year administrative assistant. Many Representatives feared they might be ousted by their assistants...
...Taxes. To get better men into Congress, the House voted, as the Senate had, a $5,000-a-year raise (to $15,000) -but with a difference. Only $12,500 of it will be salary, the rest an expense allowance and thus free of taxation. Saving to a married member with two dependents living on his salary: $926 a year...
...there had been heavy pressure in Washington against him. The Democratic National Committee wanted the $10,000-a-year plum for its own choice, New Hampshire's ex-Governor Francis Murphy. From party politicos to the White House went protests about Luis Muñoz Marin's bossism. Harry Truman stood firm; he wanted a native, and Interior Secretary Julius Krug agreed that Sugar Farmer Piñero should be the man. So did most Puerto Ricans...
Last week also brought news of a new $5,000,000-a-year Army project. The Manhattan District's new atomic laboratory in the New York metropolitan area (TIME, July 8) got a charter as Associated Universities. Inc. Participants: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, M.I.T., Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Yale, Rochester, Pennsylvania...