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...eligible for a 6?-an-hour pay boost even though more than a 2? increase would put them over the legal wage ceiling. Their contracts, negotiated since the wage freeze, did not have the government's O.K. and presumably ran counter to other segments of Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston's policy. Would he stop them? Washington, the U.S., waited...
Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston tried to oil the troubled waters in conferences with labor's bosses. He apparently cooled labor's fever only a few degrees. But this week the Administration made one oblique attempt at conciliation. The President appointed ex-Senator Frank P. Graham, former president of the University of North Carolina, onetime War Labor Board member and labor's good friend, as defense manpower administrator in the Labor Department...
...Auditor Joseph ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate and the honor of being shellacked by Republican Bob Taft. He was already beginning to think about 1952 when the telephone rang last November and Washington offered him the OPS job. By coincidence, it was Eric Johnston who put Mike Di Salle up for the job-weeks before Johnston himself moved into the mobilization picture as Di Salle's immediate superior. Johnston had heard a lot about the Toledo mayor from a Di Salle booster in Washington...
...Salle came forward with a well-timed proposal for a 30-day price freeze to let OPS study the price situation. Valentine vetoed it. With that slight push Economic Stabilizer Valentine fell and Price Boss Di Salle's promoter, Eric Johnston, moved in. It was Di Salles first fight in Washington, and he came of it without a bead of sweat on his brow. He let nothing ruffle him. "You know how it is here," he said. "We get a crisis every 20 minutes. But the thing that makes it bearable is this...
Winthrop's Tom Carter decisioned the Commuters' Frank Dewar in a close bout, 5 to 1, to take the 137-pound title. The Puritans' Bob Harding pinned Kirkland's Nat Berkowitz in the 136-pound bracket. Ernie Johnston of Kirkland took the fastest fall of the night from Roger Milkman of Lowell in 1:02 min. to capture the 123-pound crown...