found: National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.). Records of senior staff, 1922-1971(Eric A. Johnston; Eric Allen Johnston; business exec. of Spokane, Wash. and Wash. DC; b. Dec. 21, 1895; d. Aug. 22, 1963; pres. Columbia Electric & Mfg. Co., 1933-49; pres. Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., 1942-46; pres. Motion Picture Assn. of America, 1945-63)
found: RLIN, 4/8/94(hdg.: Johnston, Eric Allen, 1896- ; usage: Eric A. Johnston; Eric Johnston)
found: Communist infiltration of Hollywood in the 1940's [SR] c1981 (a.e.)label (Eric Johnson) narration (Eric Johnston; president of the Motion Picture Association of America during McCarthy era)
found: Phone call to Congeros, 1/26/82(Eric Johnston, label incorrect)
found: Sola, Richard (Historian). Eric A. Johnston, 2015:title page (Eric A. Johnston) page 1 (Eric Allen Johnston (1895-1963), business leader, government public servant, diplomat and public figure, died in Washington D.C.) pages 5-21 (born Eric Allen Johnson (not Johnston) in Washington D.C., with differing birth dates given (1895, 1894, 1896), gravestone & family says 1895. Family moved to Marysville, Montana and then Spokane. Graduated 1913 from Lewis and Clark High School, then enrolled as Eric Allen Johnston at the University of Washington to study law, when war began in 1917 joined Marine Corps, later stationed as an attache of the American legation in Peking, China. In 1922 invalided out & returned to Spokane to start businesses; rose to President of Chamber of Commerce, served on corporation boards, acted as diplomatic emmissary for Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower and took various governmental roles; public speaker, author, then president of the Motion Picture Association of America)
found: Wikipedia, June 12, 2019(Eric Johnston; Eric Allen Johnston (December 21, 1896-August 22, 1963) was a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and a U.S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations. Born "Eric Johnson" when the Johnsons divorced in 1911, Eric's mother changed their last name to Johnston. Johnston was named president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDAA), the predecessor of the MPAA, in 1946, he immediately changed the name of the organization to the Motion Picture Association of America) sidebar (born Eric Allen Johnson, December 21, 1896, Washington, D.C.; died August 22, 1963, Washington, D.C.)
