Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellery Queen mysteries plus the New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and a new book by Harry and Bonaro Overstreet, What We Must Know About Communism (Norton; $3.95). Once or twice he phoned the office for a check on things. In the State Department one day, while Dillon was presiding over a morning conference, a secretary sent in a United Press International dispatch...
...blue seal of his office. Chris Herter, his 6-ft. 5-in. body bent by arthritis (he has recently been using a wheelchair and aluminum half crutches to get around), walked down the steps unaided to be met by Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, his next in command during the period of Foster Dulles' incapacity...
With Herter holding the title and ultimate responsibility and Dillon holding the high respect of Herter, White House and Congress, these two men would be running the West's most important diplomatic post for at least a few crucial weeks...
...Herter worked as a member of a team drafting foreign-policy speeches for U.S. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey. Teammate: Doug Dillon. Team coach: John Foster Dulles. Herter met Dwight Eisenhower in Paris in 1951, instantly joined the ranks of Republicans urging Ike to run for the presidency, helped as a campaign adviser...
...Cheever, lecturer on Government, voiced the opinion that "there can only be one Secretary of State. Any ambiguity in policy could be very chaotic," he said. He added that if Dulles is well enough, he might continue on in an advisory capacity to the President. In this case either Dillon or Herter might take over Dulles' job. This would ressen the problems involved in the change of leadership, he thought, since "both Herter and Dillon are very intimate with the workings of the State Department...