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Amendments were put up, passed or rejected, sometimes at a rate of one every two minutes. In about eight hours, 75 amendments were disposed of. At 1:10 a.m., while Mike Di Salle and Stabilizer Eric Johnston watched, stony-faced, from the gallery, the House rattled out its version of the controls bill, by a final 323-to-92 vote...
...will be from $10 billion to $20 billion more money in U.S. pockets than there will be goods to spend it on. Unless this money can be taxed into the Treasury or coaxed into bonds, unless credit is curtailed, unless prices meanwhile are kept in line (so say Wilson, Johnston and Di Salle), the pressures might blow up the economy...
...Dire Consequences." Amid such signs that the head man's words were not going over, the assistant coaches began to exhort the team, too. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston cut short a press conference to catch a plane for New York, where, on a television program and on Mary Margaret McBride's radio show, he got in a few words for strong controls. Fred Vinson, stepping down from his traditionally aloof position of Chief Justice, warned that any relaxation of preparedness would have "dire consequences." Secretary of Defense George Marshall, Presidential Assistant W. Averell Harriman and others warned against...
...sounding outraged, took quick action: he fired a handful of sheriffs and constables (including Dade County's wealthy Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan). The quizzing went on and the governor saw another log overturned, right on the Statehouse lawn. Out scurried one of the governor's old friends, William Johnston, big-shot Miami and Chicago race-track operator, tagged by the Kefauver Committee as "an associate of Capone mobsters." Johnston unwillingly recalled that he had whistled up $135,000 for Warren's successful election campaign. Meanwhile, Warren reinstated Miami's Sheriff Sullivan, and his critics were back...
...Blowing the first of several holes through his wage ceiling, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston approved a 6?-an-hour escalator clause raise for 1,000,000 non-operating...