In its annual meeting last week the U.S. Chamber of Commerce settled for a minimum of the American Dream: "fairly constant employment" after the war.
That phrase came from the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Georgia's Walter F. George, in one of the 70-odd speeches made in the three-day "War Council" sessions, held in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria.
"Fairly constant employment" more nearly expressed the postwar expectations of the 3,000 businessmen present than did the "full employment" bespoken by the Chamber's ebullient, optimistic (and reelected) president, Eric A. Johnston of Spokane. President...
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