Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...top leaders of the Russian hierarchy, for showing us so clearly the face of oppression...
...budget was at the top of his work list. With Budget Director James E. Webb and Assistant Director Frank Pace Jr., he dug into his daily fiscal sessions with the stern attitude of a bank examiner. He startled Webb and Pace with his grasp of budget problems. He piqued military chieftains by refusing to raise the lid on the $15 billion limit which he had clamped on 1949 military expenditures. He was firmly convinced that a larger amount would do more harm than good to the nation's economic structure...
Early in the week he sent Webb to the Senate Civil Service subcommittee with a recommendation for a $1,500,000-a-year salary increase for top Government officials. This would boost the pay of Cabinet officers from $15,000 to $25,000, under secretaries from $10,000-$12,000 to $22,500, assistant secretaries from $10,000 to $17,500. One executive position not included in Truman's raise request was the presidency...
...wrote the "Great War Novel" that everybody has taken for granted ever since V-day. But a few writers did try to record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there. Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions also made a great splash, though with far less literary justification...
...late Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman's Peace of Mind, after months of leadership, had been replaced by Dale Carnegie's more practical guide to the same end, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Even so, a surprising number of better books had climbed up among the top moneymakers...