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...whole U.S. knew the controls were coming. What held them up was one last wrangle over wages. Congress had decreed in the Defense Production Act that if prices went under control, wages would have to be controlled too. But the three labor members of Cyrus Ching's Wage Stabilization Board balked at putting their names to a wage-freeze order; they could hardly face the union rank & file again if they had a hand in initiating one. Cyrus Ching, a man of overabundant patience, laid the problem before his boss, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston; Johnston, under pressure from above...
Finally, one afternoon last week, the Government was ready to bob the cat's tail. Ten minutes before a scheduled press conference was to begin, Johnston handed the wage order to Cyrus Ching, who hardly had time to skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price...
...Christmas Blubber." With gay disregard of military protocol, Molly had drawn up a big guest list. It included Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of the Air Force chief (who was off on an inspection tour in Korea); the formidable Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, a doyenne of Washington society; Mrs. Cyrus Ching; Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Biffle; Lord and Lady Tedder-and, of course-Colonel May. A few of the guests were missing, but surveying the crowd, Molly thought it best to move to General Vandenberg's own office...
Gone Again. Cyrus S. Ching's nine-man Wage Stabilization Board, which is also under Valentine, was making no more progress toward stabilization than DiSalle. The C.I.O.'s Philip Murray and A.F.L. leaders warned Ching that they would not deal with his board until it was free of control by Valentine and until Ching had power to act on his own. Furthermore, they were willing to talk wage controls only after prices had been fully stabilized...
Leverett House last night elected David Binder '53, Lewis H. Borwn '53, Richard C. Farrington '52, and Cyrus C. Lippman '52 to the House Committee...