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...South America last week a new kind of ambassador was delivering a new kind of plain talk to the people-Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who took off three weeks ago from Miami, has now visited Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile (TIME, March...
...chairman of the U.S. Committee of the Inter-American Development Commission, Johnston is making the tour not "as a good-will mission but a business trip." Instead of following the Government line of promising much (and delivering little), Johnston bluntly told Brazilians that for the duration of the war they could expect precious little machinery and other needed products, mainly because of lack of ships. His audience applauded...
...Buenos Aires on a hand-waving, handshaking Latin-American swing to promote U.S. postwar trade: Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Other stops: Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia...
Thick-chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...
Married. Major George Fielding Eliot, 48, CBS war commentator, New York Herald Tribune columnist, author (The Ramparts We Watch); and June Mabel Johnston Cawley Hynd, till recently a director of women's programs for NBC; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...