Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clarence) Douglas Dillon...
...Doug Dillon, trim (6 ft. 1 in., 188 Ibs.) but beginning to fringe on top at age 49, last year nailed down a top place in Ike's regard. As Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, hardworking, soft-selling Dillon earned a major share of the credit for steering reciprocal trade and foreign aid through a bullheadedly balky Congress. Perhaps the most popular of all-State Department officials on Capitol Hill, Dillon is especially friendly with Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, new chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Across the Board. Born in Geneva while his parents were making the Grand Tour, Doug Dillon followed a pedigreed path: from Groton ('27) to Harvard ('31) with a B.A. to his father's Manhattan investment banking firm of Dillon, Read...
Five months after Pearl Harbor, Dillon went on active Navy duty as an ensign, participated in the invasions of Guam, Saipan and the Philippines, served as operations officer for the Seventh Fleet air arm, was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently...
...Under Secretary for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, by all odds the Capitol Hill favorite, and probably (if agreement in principle is the prevailing factor) the likely choice of Foster Dulles himself. Dillon also rates high with Ike, but to name him would be to move him ostentatiously over Herter's head...