Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another reason: the U.S. found in Deputy Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, onetime Wall Street investment banker, a foreign aid field commander with the tactical skill needed-and deployed-to prevail upon Congress to pass 1958's $3.3 billion foreign aid appropriation. As much as it dramatized Communism's infiltration of strategic, oil-rich Venezuela, the mobbing of Vice President Nixon in Caracas (TIME, May 26) underlined the urgent need for U.S. help for orderly economic growth in the hemisphere. Needed in Latin America, Asia and Africa alike was a new climate of incentive plans...
...Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, the Commerce Department's blunt, contentious Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Henry Kearns, 47, onetime California Chevrolet dealer, is trying to invade the State Department's foreign economic policy domain, ruled over by rich, polished Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon...
Through all this, Diplomat Dillon, sometime U.S. Ambassador to France, sat by without flicking an eyebrow...
...insider odds are that Kearns will make little headway. Dillon carries a lot more prestige than Kearns, both within the Administration and on Capitol Hill. During last spring's hearings on the Administration's reciprocal trade bill, Kearns's rough-edged stubbornness so annoyed Ways & Means committeemen that there was talk of formally expelling him from the hearing room. When Dillon replaced Kearns as the Administration spokesman, the stalled bill glided through the committee with ease. But Kearns has an influential friend on Ways & Means: Louisiana's Hale Boggs, chairman of the foreign-trade subcommittee...
Another of George Dillon's problems is also a fault in construction. Certain