Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted because of the strong pressure the various economy leagues are exerting, but also where, because of politics, much of it will be rejected. The resulting reduction will probably not be ample and new methods of raising revenue will have to be adopted. The government is in a dilemma, faced by the necessity of reducing necessary expenditure because it must balance the budget...
...Doctor's Dilemma...
...must go on increasing if Capitalism was to persist. What would happen, he asked, on the day when, because of American exports to Europe, the British lion's part in supplying the world with goods should come to a standstill? How could Capitalism get out of that dilemma? "Nevertheless, after twelve years of an apparently insoluble crisis. Capitalism managed to wiggle out, and indeed become more prosperous than ever. "Today we are again in the position that Engles described-stagnation, poverty, superabundance of capital on the one hand, superabundance of idle labor on the other, with every appearance that...
Baron von Gayl, impaled on the horns of this constitutional dilemma, soothed Herr Hitler as best he could, then called a meeting of his Ministry of Interior of all the Ministers of Interior of all the German states. "I cannot implore you too strongly," cried Baron von Gayl, "to bring the regulations of your states as soon as possible into harmony with our federal policy on this most important, most vital matter...
...proxy, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped to attention...