Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration always seems to have so many other things to do. Almost from the beginning of his White House tenure, Kennedy has promised to seek overall tax reform. Yet last week, as Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon's representatives, along with top aides of other departments, went to present their plans to the White House, the talk seemed more about tax cuts than tax reforms...
...waiting for the guests to arrive, there is some joking and joshing. But as the youngsters enter, they hear a wrought-up Martha hurl "Screw you!" across the room at her husband. Nick (George Grizzard), aged 30, is a new member of the biology department; his wife Honey (Melinda Dillon) is four years younger. At first they are onlookers, but before long they find themselves sucked into the vortex of a maelstrom. The fun refuses to remain innocent, and the games become deadly: in turn they play Humiliate the Host, then Hump the process more liquor than does the entire...
...role of the opportunistic biologist is the easiest and least rounded of the four. But George Grizzard fills it out with admirable skill. Melinda Dillon, an actress new to me, is truly remarkable as the ridiculously tiddly young wife of weak stomach and low I.Q. This is a treacherous part that would be unbearably painful in the hands of a lesser actress...
...goodies to be handed out in 1963. Walter Heller, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, called for a tax reduction of $5 billion, including a 10% cut in corporation taxes but with the bulk of the cut going to individuals. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon followed up with the prediction of a "significant" cut in taxes, adding that since tax concessions already have been given to corporations, "by far the major part" of the new cuts should take place in individual tax rates...
...real answer to the balance of payments in the end, says Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, falls on the foreign adventurism of the U.S. businessman. To close the payments gap, he says, "will take a substantial and accelerating increase in U.S. exports of goods and services...