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...Ching's Wage Stabilization Board balked at putting their names to a wage-freeze order; they could hardly face the union rank & file again if they had a hand in initiating one. Cyrus Ching, a man of overabundant patience, laid the problem before his boss, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston; Johnston, under pressure from above to act by the weekend, decided reluctantly that he would have to sign his own name to the wage decree...
...lean, trim man with a Pepsodent smile and a face that reminded feature writers of Robert Taylor, and he moved fast. Johnston was only 46 when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 1942 elected him its president, the youngest in its history. He kept on preaching, urging the old guard to recognize the reality of the New Deal and labor's growth, preaching to labor the way of fruitful cooperation with management...
...spoke along the Kiwatiians-Elks-Rotarians circuit in more than 500 U.S. cities and towns. He sat on 22 civilian advisory boards and committees for the Government during World War II, 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...
...Fringe. Johnston did not capitalize on his political potentialities. In 1945 he settled into the presidency of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association of America as successor to Movie Czar Will Hays. Except for occasional public speeches and a few minor excursions into the headlines when he was involved in complicated movie deals with the British, he seemed content to stay on the fringe of public life...
...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...