Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly afterwards, President Johnson met with Mrs. Willie Dillon, Mrs. Aleyne Quinn, and Mrs. Charles C. Bryant of McComb. The homes of all three have been recently bombed...
Delaying Action. In formal rebuttal, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, normally a champion of reform, labeled Giscard d'Estaing's plan "a danger" and cautioned the delegates to go slow in tampering with the IMF. U.S. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon got in his licks, too, playing upon the bankers' conservative instincts to make his point. Dillon conceded that international cash and credit should eventually be enlarged to keep up with the rapid expansion of world trade, which has outstripped the rise in the world's money supply, but he argued that...
Though France had lined up some weighty allies, notably the Germans and the Dutch, Dillon and Maudling appeared to win the majority of the delegates-at least for now. Many echoed the sentiment of Japan's mightiest financier, Fuji Bank President Iwasa: "The gold standard is outdated." But the cold, hard fact of monetary policy is that the long-term trend is toward less dependence on the dollar and sterling. As he tries to do with everything else, General de Gaulle is certain to press his attempt to use this economic shift to gain political dividends...
...according to the dictates of an arbitrary fiscal policy." But in "our years in office," boasted McNamara, the U.S. has developed "the greatest military power in human history-with a capability to respond to every level of aggression across the entire spectrum of conflict." Tax Cuts. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon provided the tastiest vote-getting testimony of all: a hint of tax cuts to come, provided, of course, you-know-who is returned to office. The U.S., said Dillon, was enjoying "the best period of peacetime prosperity in our entire modern history," and he suggested that cuts in excise taxes...
...Samuel Taylor's Beekman Place, French Actor Fernand Gravet plays a violin virtuoso with a string of women (Madeleine Carroll, Arlene Francis, Melinda Dillon). Britain's Terence Stamp comes to Broadway as Alfie, a Jack-of-all-trades with Jill troubles. Onetime Moppet Margaret O'Brien will star in One in a Row, about an author who writes a bestseller and decides to quit while he is ahead. Jean Kerr, who has been far ahead since Mary, Mary, has completed Poor Richard, a play about a visiting British poet which was originally due last year...