Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hunched over the blue-clothed table, U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon scrawled his answer on a pad as Guevara talked. He kept on writing even after Guevara finished and slumped into his chair amidst eloquent silence. Then Dillon waved his Estados Unidos name plate at the chairman, and stood up to reply. Castro would get no U.S. aid, no U.S. recognition, said Dillon. "Unfortunately, the delegate of Cuba has tried to give the implication that the U.S. somehow recognizes the permanence of the present regime in Cuba. This we do not do and never will do, because...
...research director for the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, earned a reputation in his trade as "the best central banker in the world." He has a good teacher's ability to talk lucidly on complex subjects, makes a brilliant congressional witness. Roosa has been the man behind Dillon's efforts to lower long-term interest rates, improve the management of the national debt...
...Doug Dillon has managed to keep track of those directions without losing sight of the ultimate objective of his economic policy: convincing the uncommitted nations that U.S.-style free enterprise is both healthy and helpful, and better than Soviet-style Communism. "This is the challenge," Dillon once said, with his customary earnestness. "Are we going to persevere in our efforts to help the one billion people in the free world's less developed areas place themselves firmly on the road to progress? If we do not measure up to the challenge-if through unwise or inadequate actions...
...Other Dillon, Read alumni to serve in top Government jobs include William H. Draper Jr., who was Harry Truman's Under Secretary of the Army, and Paul Nitze, currently Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. *Dillon is the only Cabinet member who can match homes with Millionaire Jack Kennedy. Besides his Washington residence, he has an apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, a winter retreat at Kobe Sound, Fla., called La Lanterne, a summer place in Darkharbor, Me., an estate in Far Hills, N.J., a "cottage" at Versailles, France...
...basic ingredient of the alliance was pledged early in the session, when U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon offered "at least $20 billion" in aid to Latin America during the next ten years. Much of the money, said Dillon, would be advanced in long-term loans "at very low or zero rates of interest." Dillon made it clear to even the most sensitive Latin ears that he was putting forward "a plan for debate, not a condition prior to aid." U.S. dollars were only one part of a program that called for land and tax reforms, the creation...