Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of metropolitan France since 1848. To counter the rising tide of anti-Americanism in France, a clarification of the U.S. position on North Africa was long overdue. Last week, in a Paris speech approved in advance by President Eisenhower, U.S. Ambassador to France C. (for Clarence) Douglas Dillon made that clarification. Said he: are today a number of people in France who seem to feel that the U.S. has not been adequately supporting France in North Africa or, worse still, that we have even contemplated the possibility of replacing her in that area...
...largest contingent of golfers ever to make the trip will journey to Pinehurst, North Carolina for a week's practice on one of the finest courses in the nation. The team has had no real practice save for a few sessions in Dillon, practicing drives. Coach Harold Williams feels that the trip will afford the team an excellent opportunity to get in shape for the regular season...
...paraded a succession of important callers: Secretary of State Dulles (twice alone and once with others), Attorney General Brownell (to discuss the President's upcoming message on changes in immigration laws), Economic Advisers Arthur Burns and Gabriel Hauge, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss and National Security Aide Dillon Anderson (to talk about getting the President's atoms-for-peace program back on the international track), Defense Mobilization Chief Arthur Flemming, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and Republican congressional leaders (for an 80-minute conference in which the President urged high priority for his farm...
...Dillon, an Overseer, was chairman of Dillon, Read and Co. an investment banking firm until his appointment as Ambassador...
...disrupting influence on his efforts with the Yardlings has been weekly scouting missions against coming varsity opponents. Sources at Dillon Field House say it was his efforts in diagnosing Crimson troubles against Columbia that helped the varsity pull their win over the Lions last fall...