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...Among the other guests: Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, Assistant Labor Secretary George Lodge (son of G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge), and their wives...
...spur capital investment; at the same time he hoped to firm short-term interest rates to stem the flow of gold to countries where rates are more attractive. The two goals are "contradictory," Kennedy admitted, and achieving them would require all the wizardry of Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Democratic Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. Kennedy went on to speak of a long-overdue tax reform to come, hinting that the Administration would strive to liberalize depreciation rates and to plug tax loopholes...
...governments, who used to sulk secretly over forgeries indicating skulduggery by allies, now check these "documents" with each other to establish authenticity. And last July a phony aimed at Latin America was handily aborted by U.S. authorities. It professed to be secret instructions from Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon to U.S. diplomatic posts in South America. Orders were to pressure Latin American governments to stay away from a Castro-sponsored "Conference of Hungry Nations" scheduled to meet in Havana. "A blunt approach will be necessary," the forgery read. It was supposed to surface in Guatemala, but U.S. agents intercepted...
...Method hipsters seeking to prove that the opiate of the people is heroin after all; and Little Mary Sunshine, a boffo operetta satirizing the Kerny, Frimlous past. Among worthy revivals, there is a superlative production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and a welcome reprise of Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton...
Eager though he was to give his Cabinet a bipartisan look, President Kennedy made sure that his prospective Republican selections did not intend to use their secretarial posts as steppingstones to future political advancement-particularly as Republicans running against Democrats. Kennedy point-blank asked Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon whether he still had hopes of running for either Governor or Senator of New Jersey, got assurance that Dillon was willing to sacrifice his personal political ambitions. Until he selected Republican Dillon and Independent Bob McNamara for the New Frontier, Kennedy thought seriously about retaining Eisenhower Appointee Thomas Gates as Defense Secretary...