Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your TIME cover picture [Aug. 18] of C. Douglas Dillon has stirred quite an interest among us. What aroused our curiosity are the gold bars stacked like bricks on the background of your cover. We just could not understand what the numbers stamped on the bars represent...
...Douglas Dillon is a great American, he is the ideal candidate for the Republican Party to endorse as President...
Berlin was the worst problem confronting the President of the U.S.; it was by no means the only one. Following Johnson into the White House came Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, back in the U.S. from the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este. The crucial importance of that conference, at which the U.S. proposed to help its Latin American neighbors with a $1.1 billion, ten-year loan program, was underlined last week by the sudden resignation of Brazil's President Jánio Quadros in a crisis that began over Quadros' too enthusiastic welcome for Cuba...
...Dramatics. Che's adroit politicking provided the drama of the conference, but as the U.S. Treasury's Dillon clearly saw, the real business was not dramatics, and the real success was not yet to be measured. The present task was merely to get under way. The U.S. objective at Punta del Este was to offer Latin America, tormented by its hunger for food, learning, health and work, a working alternative to Castro's "socialism," and it hoped to encourage Latin Americans themselves to prove that democracy can provide swift enough economic and political progress...
...people of Latin America to fish caught beneath the ice, and the Punta del Este delegates to skaters above. To the fish, the skaters and their complicated figures mean nothing; the only thing that counts to them is the act of cutting through the ice and sending down food. Dillon put the same message in his own dogged way: "Although we have charted the way to progress, plans alone will not feed the people, cure the sick or educate our children. We must now undertake the hard and steady work of making a reality out of our dreams...