Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party clearly on the spot. If National Electric's President William Christopher Robinson obeyed the Board, he would defy the bench. If he obeyed the bench, he would defy the Board. For either-contempt of court or "unfair labor practice"-he may go to jail. This was a dilemma which all the ripe experience of President Robinson's 70 years could not resolve, and he swiftly sought counsel of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...handicapped by a stenciled love story which has Jameson (Pat O'Brien), San Quentin's tough yard captain, in love with May Kennedy (Ann Sheridan), the sister of the prison's least pleasant inmate, Joe (Humphrey Bogart). However, the yard captain's sentimental dilemma does not seriously retard the drama of the changes which concrete walls make in the lives of men who have to stay behind them whether for professional or punitive reasons. Druggin (Barton MacLane), a bear cat for discipline but incapable of handling men, is replaced by Jameson, an army officer who tries...
...saying that it would be inadvisable for this government to do anything that did not follow the lead of London, Mr. Hull faced the dilemma of our neutrality legislation. If we follow London we are the tail-end of the League of Nations; if not, we may suffer embarrassment as in the Ethiopian affair. If the United States labels Valencia as a "belligerent" without treating Germany and Italy similarly, it appears to be discriminating against the Loyalist government of Spain...
...result of the Depression dilemma faced by policyholders was a large increase in the clientele of independent insurance counselors, who work for fees, not commissions. Life companies are inclined to regard all insurance counselors as "twisters," people who persuade a policyholder to cancel a contract in one company in order to reap the commission on the sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned...
Crane's dilemma was to earn enough money to live on and write poetry at the same time. For a while he thought he had solved it, when he made a success as an advertising copy writer. But the better he became as copy writer the less time he had for poetry. Finally he chucked his job, depended thereafter on friends and windfalls. Banker Otto Kahn, when Crane appealed to him, gave him $1,000; later another $1,500. Crane's family and friends. and very rarely a check from an editor, supplied the rest of his income...