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...Fairly constant employment" more nearly expressed the postwar expectations of the 3,000 businessmen present than did the "full employment" bespoken by the Chamber's ebullient, optimistic (and reelected) president, Eric A. Johnston of Spokane. President Johnston's thesis: full employment is absolutely necessary if the peace is to be won. On this haunting subject the businessmen ranged from agreement with Johnston to approval of the Los Angeles Chamber's Frank P. Doherty: "Full employment is possible only in a slave state." But most of them were willing to let Johnston do their phrasemaking...
Other in the cast include Misses lynN bakeR '46 and Eveline Rabut. The men are Eric Neff '46, Jack H. Marshall '44, Serban Vallimarescu 1G. Phillip J. Wiener 1E and Jacques Abreu...
...other signers of the letter are Gilbert Murray, Regins Professor of Greek, Boars Hill Oxford, Eric Maclagan, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, H. W. Garrod, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and A. M. Hind, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum...
...business, Eric Johnston, 46-year-old head of the Chamber of Commerce is already a marked man. He has turned what is normally a stodgy job into an exciting one. He has shown himself able to ingratiate himself with both labor and the Administration, longtime foes of the Chamber. He has just returned from a tour of South America (TIME, March 15), on which he endorsed the Hull reciprocal trade agreements and succeeded in selling many a South American the idea that free enterprise may be as important in Good Neighbor policy as big Government handouts...
...Eric Johnston saw no reason why the U.S. should lose its traditional balance between Government and free enterprise. "American business and industrial management has made its mistakes, but it has also demonstrated and is demonstrating in the war effort its great capacities. It must think in terms of the fifth decade of the 20th Century. . . . The most urgent of its responsibilities is to provide more equal opportunity for production, for employment and for economic self-improvement...