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Globe-trotting Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a press conference: "From Iceland to South America and from Mexico to Russia the crying need around the world seems to be money...
...wake of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to Moscow, an incident from another famed visit bobbed up last week. All one night U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston and Writer William L. White* listened to their Moscow hosts sing Russian songs. Then the Russians politely asked their guests to sing an American song. Johnston and White responded with the only song they could think of: Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam...
...Gettysburg for Shoes. Brigadier General Johnston Pettigrew led the way to Gettysburg because he had heard that he could get shoes for his men there. Major General Harry Heth, his divisional commander, remained .in nearby Cashtown. He wanted...
...puzzler, Johnston admitted. He argued that of the two possible ways of meeting the costs (out of general revenues or from payroll taxes), the payroll taxes are the lesser evil. But he recommended that increase in the rate of such taxes should be imposed slowly and spread over a period of time...
...Johnston does not want social security extensions (hospitalization, sickness benefits, etc.) carried out federally, as provided by the Wagner-Murray-Dingall bill. Instead, he wants additions and improvements made by state and local governments, to minimize "the evil effect of bureaucracy and remote Washington control...