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...days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired and installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze of prices and wages and a partial rollback of prices were in the works...
Valentine's successor was already waiting in the wings. Energetic Eric Johnston had arranged a nine-month leave of absence from his job as chief of the Motion Picture Association of America (with the probability of further leave, if necessary), and put in a requisition for a Government desk close to Charlie Wilson's office in Washington's grubby old State Department building...
Pepsodent Smile. The $17,500 post was Eric Johnston's first Government job. But he was no stranger to the national stage. He had first flashed on to the scene in the late 1930s, a handsome, vigorous young industrialist at war with the air of uneasiness and discomfort then clouding the American business world. A capitalist who was willing to preach capitalism when other U.S. businessmen were hiding behind slogans and cursing the New Deal, he had built four businesses of his own in the Pacific Northwest, then rode out to champion the cause of business, small and large...
...earned the Medal for Merit from the Government for his nationwide labor-management cooperation program during the war. Johnston traveled to other parts of the world, toured Russia, became one of the rare U.S. private citizens officially invited to confer with Stalin. It was not long before Eric Johnston was being talked about as a possible Senator, even a possible Republican contender for the presidency...
...last week Eric Johnston flashed back into the center of things again. Still, at 55, startlingly handsome and vigorous, he brought some impressive qualifications to his new job. He was more than ever the brisk and confident negotiator, administrator and mediator, a man who had the confidence of business, labor, and the Administration which felt need of his services. He was a polished, persuasive speaker, a man who knew how to roll with a punch, a well-traveled executive with the capacity for vast acquaintanceship which is essential for public life...