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...advocated successfully for free trade and tax cuts and spearheaded Kennedy's economic-development program in Latin America. Although he was born to wealth and influence (he was the scion of the international banking house Dillon, Read & Co. and enjoyed close ties to the Rockefellers), his family name was Lapowski before his Polish-born grandfather took his mother's maiden name, Dillon. That name would ultimately be printed on millions of U.S. dollar bills. Having acquired a taste for art from his years in France, he amassed a collection of Impressionist paintings, much of which he later donated...
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...
Sirs: Am just a bit curious to know by what authority you say in TIME Oct. 16, in speaking of Clarence Dillon (Read & Co.) "whose father ran a general store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born"-because-and I speak in a great measure from personal knowledge- The American career of the Dillon-Lapowski family began in Victoria, Texas m the persons of Sam (Dillon's father) and Nathan-a Capt. & Col. in the Texas National Guard-serving in the World War with an enviable record. Sam moved...
...Street last week, the Press and public were apathetic. Nevertheless, the show went on. First to take the stand was Clarence Dillon, smooth, cheery, Texas-born head of the banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., whose father ran a general store in San Angelo and changed his name from Lapowski to Dillon before Clarence was born. Banker Dillon willingly told the Senators how to form investment trusts...
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