Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Civic boosters are likely to damn his book, to complain at the bleakness of the picture he draws. Dilemma of Five Cities is that Author Leighton's enthusiasm for the color and gusto of U. S. life is always at war with his knowledge of the violence of much of U. S. history. But in telling the story in local, rather than national terms, Five Cities suggests that he has tapped one of the richest of unworked U. S. historical mines...
...their previous lows by the industrial and railroad averages would mean that the primary market trend had changed from bull to bear, even though the bull market which began last spring has not enjoyed either normal length or the usual hectic "third phase." Robert Rhea unhappily admitted his dilemma and critics of the Dow Theory settled down to a watchful waiting...
...Must We Tolerate Intolerance?" demanded Rev. Wilbur Larremore Caswell last week in the liberal Episcopal Churchman. Mr. Caswell thus stated a dilemma which bothers many a religious liberal. It was posed for him last month by a Nazi Bund rally on Washington's Birthday in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal...
Although the New Deal has striven through AAA I and II to cut crop production for six years, the nation has been steadily faced by a great economic, political, humanitarian dilemma: agricultural plenty existing side by side with human want. To resolve it without dislocating business has proved a ticklish...
...Producer Gabriel Pascal last year astonished the cinema industry by screening the first of a series of Bernard Shaw's plays, whence all but him had fled. Last week, en route from Hollywood to London to start work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration...