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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...
...bearing down on market studies, he helped boost the agency's billings from $46 million in 1946 to a 1948 rate of more than $50 million. Last week in Manhattan, at 32, Marion Harper was made president as Founder H. K. McCann, 68, moved up to board chairman. Said an awed agency director, in summarizing Harper's rise: "He energizes people . . . he's got so much energy himself. The agency has never had such good teamwork before...
...rest will be left as a backlog for future committee expenditures. Increased continuity, Miss Heaton says, may boost Radcliffe's low standing among Boston volunteer service agencies, which now slight the Annex because of difficulty in getting hold of the girls...
...over ABC to 10 million people, for a weekly wage of $5,000 plus all the Lee hats (his sponsor) that he wants. His sponsors claim 77% accuracy for the predictions which, along with his disclosures, are his stock in trade. The batting average means little: "We can always boost it," a staffer explains candidly, "by predicting things like tomorrow will be Monday...
...also plans to sponsor a conference to study the President's Commission Report on Higher Education. Special emphasis will be focused on the part students can play in helping boost the report...