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...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...
Intellectually and morally frustrated, looking for a creed, he read the entire Socialist writings of Sidney & Beatrice Webb, discarded them as unpractical. One of his young Columbia friends put a copy of the Communist Manifesto in his hands. To Chambers, it was an awakening...
...there was bickering throughout the trial. At the final verdict (TIME, Nov. 22), the court's prestige was further muddied by U.S. Prosecutor Joseph Keenan's remark that Mamoru Shigemitsu (for whom he had asked the death sentence) should really have been acquitted. Presiding Justice Sir William Webb of Australia (after condemning seven of the defendants to death) said that he did not believe in capital punishment...
...chairmen Christopher M. Martin '49 and Waldo H. Heinrichs Jr, '49 of the Social Service Committee, and N. Conant Webb Jr. '49 sent out 1800 tickets to the various settlement houses and agencies, and expect that two-thirds of these will be used. The show will be limited to kids over 12 years...