Word: dillons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...payments deficit, and "Doves," who felt that stern restrictions would damage the nation. Johnson heeded the Doves, among them Commerce Secretary John Connor and President Donald C. Cook of American Electric Power Co., a prime Johnson adviser who will become Secretary of the Treasury this spring when Douglas Dillon leaves...
MERIWETHER LEWIS by Richard Dillon. 364 pages. Coward-McCann...
Harvard's basketball team, wearied by a long train ride to Princeton after their plane had been grounded by fog, suffered a 76-55 loss to the Tigers at Dillon Gym last night...
Just before De Gaulle spoke, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon made the first public admission that the U.S. payments deficit in 1964 moved higher than anyone had expected. It totaled about $3 billion, all of which the U.S. is legally committed to exchange for U.S. gold on demand. The Federal Reserve announced that the U.S. gold supply declined last week by $100 million, to a 26-year low of $15.1 billion...
Martin, Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon are lobbying for measures that would drastically affect the nation's foreign and domestic policies. Among the proposals that one or all three of them have forwarded: an exit tag of $50 or $100 per person to discourage tourism abroad, direct controls on U.S. investments abroad, a further cutback in foreign aid and, if necessary, a sharp reduction of U.S. troop strength in Europe. These proposals have been hotly debated at a series of secret meetings in the White House. The State Department is dead set against foreign aid cuts...