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...days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired and installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze of prices and wages and a partial rollback of prices were in the works...
Valentine's successor was already waiting in the wings. Energetic Eric Johnston had arranged a nine-month leave of absence from his job as chief of the Motion Picture Association of America (with the probability of further leave, if necessary), and put in a requisition for a Government desk close to Charlie Wilson's office in Washington's grubby old State Department building...
Pepsodent Smile. The $17,500 post was Eric Johnston's first Government job. But he was no stranger to the national stage. He had first flashed on to the scene in the late 1930s, a handsome, vigorous young industrialist at war with the air of uneasiness and discomfort then clouding the American business world. A capitalist who was willing to preach capitalism when other U.S. businessmen were hiding behind slogans and cursing the New Deal, he had built four businesses of his own in the Pacific Northwest, then rode out to champion the cause of business, small and large...
From Tokyo, which still had only "advisory" censorship, correspondents fired off hot protests. Russell Brines, A.P.'s Tokyo chief, cabled that "censorship is throwing a black curtain around [the] news." The New York Times's Dick Johnston reported the convictionusually sound in such casesthat it "was being used to cover up military errors and defeats...
Such chronological high jinks is old stuff to Chaplain Mayer; in a MATS transport plane he hops the date line between two of his stations-Kwajalein Atoll and Johnston Island-often enough to squeeze five to eight Sundays into each month. On Christmas, he was almost as busy as Santa Claus. At Kwajalein, he said Masses at midnight, 9 a.m. and noon on Dec. 25, left at 2:20 p.m. to arrive at Johnston Island at 11:30 the night before, in time to start the cycle over again...