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...varied distinctions as an out-of-the-ordinary businessman, Eric Johnston last week added another. The smooth, bright-faced president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce published his first book, America Unlimited (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50), with a first printing of 250,000 copies. In it, he expounds briskly and sometimes brilliantly the evangel of free competitive enterprise which he has preached up & down the U.S., South America and Britain...
Best guess was that Homer Bone would not resign from the Senate until after the November election, thus preventing Republican Governor Arthur Langlie from appointing an interim G.O.P. Senator. But with the hottest Democratic vote getter out, Washington GOPsters were hopeful. Best Republican bet: Eric Johnston, 47, of Spokane, the forceful president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Since 1942 Johnston has run his four businesses and 1,700 employes mainly by long-distance telephone from Washington or wherever. From his walnut-paneled, richly furnished office in the banklike Chamber of Commerce building a block from the White House, he not only runs the Chamber but also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about...
Polished Diamond. Eric Johnston may well be the White Knight of U.S. Business. His critics find him just a little too good to be true: too handsome, too smooth, too patently on the make. Like other goodwilling gospelers of "cooperation" he dodges-or does not see-fundamental differences of opinion. In a New York Times Hall debate last week between Johnston and U.A.W.-C.I.O.'s shrewd ideologue, Walter Reuther of Detroit, Reuther proposed that Government continue to regiment business and labor in peace as in war, by a Peace Production Board. Johnston, intent on his gospel of cooperation, failed...
...perhaps Eric Johnston's critics miss his true significance and value. He lays no claim to being a thinker. "You go around talking to people, experiencing new sights and sounds," he says, "and you polish yourself like the facets of a diamond." Eric Johnston is pre-eminently a middleman-a middleman of ideas, a believer in the middle of the road. As such he gets top marks...