Word: dillon
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...they met last week is a courtly but outgoing Virginian who acts, talks and looks quite a bit like a country lawyer. Unlike his sophisticated predecessor, Douglas Dillon, who was highly regarded in Europe, Fowler speaks no foreign language and is not notably experienced in the arcane affairs of international finance. In a job whose occupants in past years have often been men of wealth, he is of modest middle-class means. His surprise appointment April 1 was a disappointment to many financiers in the U.S. and abroad who had hoped for a man more in the Dillon mold. What...
...When I leave this here ball club in the fall, I want to leave a young team behind me." That was New York Mets Manager Charles Dillon Stengel talking, at a New York city hall celebration of Casey Stengel Day, one week in advance of his 75th birthday. What he said sounded something like English. And it sounded something like retirement. Since New Yorkers follow every stumble of Casey's spectacularly miserable Mets, the banners in the afternoon papers bellowed STENGEL TO RETIRE. For a while, the Mets' front office turned into a shambles of confusion and denials...
...money migraine. The financial experts of the Group of Ten* gathered two weeks ago in Paris to debate ways to modernize the world's overworked, undercapitalized monetary system. In Washington last week, President Johnson's newly named international monetary advisory committee-including former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Under Secretary Robert Roosa, Bankers David Rockefeller and Andre Meyer-met for the first time to explore ideas. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler will go to Europe in September and try to persuade Europe's financial leaders to start planning for a future monetary summit...
...possible successors: White House Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy; Defense Secretary McNamara, who once made the observation that no man ought to stay more than five years on the same job and who, by that standard, has about served his time in the Pentagon; and former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a Republican who has had a lot of State Department experience...
...midweek, Giscard flew off to London to talk about the problem with British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. Next week Callaghan will arrive in Washington to discuss the subject with Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler. The signs are unmistakable that most leaders of the West agree with Douglas Dillon that "there is no longer any time to dally" about finding a substitute for dollars and pounds to finance the world's growing business...