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...good idea what it was. Last week the Tribune published a nine-column defense of itself which revealed some of the testimony brought out earlier at a Navy investigation: the Washington date line on the story was phony. It originated in Chicago and was credited to Stanley Johnston, a garrulous, black-mustachioed, Australian-born opportunist who had served in the Australian Army in World War I, knocked around Europe and the Orient for 20 years, worked for the Tribune's London bureau. He came to the U.S. after the fall of France, married a former showgirl (whom...
...night (June 6) when the Navy's first communiqué on the Battle of Midway came in. Editor Maloney is said to have humphed that the Navy was trying to balloon a skirmish into a big battle, proposed to put the story on an inside page. Reporter Johnston protested that it was one of the biggest naval battles in history. He laid before Editor Maloney a list of Japanese ships, gave him a description of the Japanese battle strategy. So Maloney put the story on page...
...demand for higher wages, when the threat of inflation got more & more real by the moment, an unprecedented delegation paid a call on the President. "Historic" the President called it, for figuratively arm-in-arm came the famed heads of A.F. of L. and C.I.O. together with President Eric Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce and President William P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers. They said they wanted to do everything possible to help win the war. The President was delighted. Same day, the two head men of labor went back to the White House-this time, significantly...
...Freedoms. But Eric Johnston is no Miles Standish. He can speak effectively and often for himself. Some of his comments on business-and-Government...
...plan a better world after the war, Eric Johnston appointed a fact-finding committee last week, prepared to invite British business leaders over this fall to help with the blueprints...