National Affairs: These Two Men

Labor

The two big-bodied, grim-faced men sat in their green-walled hotel suites in Washington and listened as the President rawhided them over the radio. Alexander Fell Whitney's lips were taut, his eyes were on the ceiling. He said not one word. Alvanley Johnston grunted only once, mumbling "Yes, sir," when Harry Truman held himself up as "a friend of labor."

Who were "these two men?" Even their names were barely known to the country at large. Was Alexander Whitney any relation to the Whitneys? Who was this man Johnston? The people (and the President)...

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