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...labor demand for higher wages, when the threat of inflation got more & more real by the moment, an unprecedented delegation paid a call on the President. "Historic" the President called it, for figuratively arm-in-arm came the famed heads of A.F. of L. and C.I.O. together with President Eric Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce and President William P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers. They said they wanted to do everything possible to help win the war. The President was delighted. Same day, the two head men of labor went back to the White House-this time...
...novels beginning with The Thin Man, proving pretty conclusively that the worst of Hammett is several parasangs ahead of his closest runners-up in the tough school; Three Famous Spy Novels (Random; $1.98), showing how dated E. P. Oppenheim's The Great Impersonation seems in the company of Eric Ambler's streamlined Journey into Fear and the sinister subtleties of Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent...
Evidently something big was stirring in the Chamber of Commerce. But not until friday of last week did the something come out. That day 38 of the 44 directors heard young Eric A. Johnston outline his new program and demand "a change in the Chamber's attitude towards the Government and towards labor." When he finished, every one of the 38 rose to give him and his program a unanimous and applauding vote of confidence...
...Freedoms. But Eric Johnston is no Miles Standish. He can speak effectively and often for himself. Some of his comments on business-and-Government...
...plan a better world after the war, Eric Johnston appointed a fact-finding committee last week, prepared to invite British business leaders over this fall to help with the blueprints...