Word: dillons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Punta del Este: Please check if Dillon's suits come from Peale the Tailor. See THE NATION, Man with the Purse...
...spokesman was Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. While Cuba's spinach-bearded economic commissar, Che Guevara, glowered in his chair, Dillon opened the conference with the most gen erous offer of help in U.S. history. In a flat, toneless voice that failed to hide the tre mendous promise of his words, Dillon vowed that the U.S. would take the lead in securing $20 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years to raise Latin America's living standards. "We welcome the revolution of rising expectations" he said, "and we intend to transform it into a revolution...
...America, misunderstanding and misunderstood, pledging much but producing little in the way of desperately needed capital investment. But there was a new tone to the U.S. commitments made at Punta del Este-and this tone reflected the convictions and attitudes of both Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Douglas Dillon. As custodian of the world's richest treasury. Dillon presides over the fiscal plans and policies of a nation with a record gross national product of $515 billion; as the fiscal housekeeper for the U.S. Government, Dillon works within the roomy confines of the largest peacetime budget in history...
Treasury's present boss may well be the most paradoxical picket on President Kennedy's New Frontier. For the past 8½-years, shy, spare (6 ft. 2 in.. 185 Ibs.) Clarence Douglas Dillon. 51, has ably served the public in posts of enormous influence and responsibility, but he is virtually unknown, and even less understood, by the public he serves. Dillon is a pragmatic, liberal Republican who holds down one of the most sensitive jobs in a Democratic Administration (not all Republicans can forgive him that). He can coldly and calmly approve a $6 billion deficit...
Ghettos & Genius. For all his aura of patrician wellbeing. Douglas Dillon is only two generations removed from the ghettos of Poland, where Samuel Lapowski. his paternal grandfather, was born. Migrating to Texas after the Civil War. Lapowski set up shop as a clothier, first in San Antonio and later in Abilene, took his mother's maiden name of Dillon, prospered enough to send his only son Clarence to Harvard. Shrewd, smart and blessed with a good poker player's sense of timing, Clarence ("Baron") Dillon was the only boy in his class...