Word: dillons
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True Story. He began by telling a story about how Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, flying to Miami with a leading Florida businessman a year or so ago, spent most of his time explaining how the man's company would benefit if the Administration's investment-credit tax bill were passed. When the plane landed, the man said to Dillon: "I am very grateful to you for explaining the bill. Now tell me just once more why it is I am against...
...DOUGLAS DILLON. Aside from her husband's investment banking fortune, Phyllis Dillon boasts several advantages. She had a four-year taste of official entertaining when Douglas was Ambassador to France. Since her husband is a registered Republican as well as Treasury Secretary for a Democratic President, her range of guests is often broader than is the case with more partisan hostesses. And Dillon, who owns a fine French vineyard, has a wine cellar that ranks with Hervé Alphand...
Several Harvard professors, including H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; Mark de Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law; Laurence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, and John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, have aigned the petition...
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a Wall Street Republican seldom given to extravagant statements, breathed bullishly last week. Tax cut or no, he predicted to the House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. gross national product will climb well beyond $600 billion in next year's first quarter, and the economy will keep on expanding through 1964's first half. Turning to the present, not the future, Dillon reckoned that in 1963's third quarter, corporate profits rose 11% from a year ago to an annual rate of $27 billion after taxes, close to the peak...
...Kennedy acted to support the Martin majority. To fill an opening on the Fed Board, he picked J. (for James) Dewey Daane, 45, formerly Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury. Daane (pronounced Dane) leans to the conservative side, was pushed for the job by Martin and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. An economist with 21 years of seasoning in the Federal Reserve System, Daane succeeds G. H. King Jr., who usually voted with Martin...