Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of the domestic economy, he faced away from reality. However he stated it, foreign aid did and would put a pressure on prices. The two problems were two horns of a U.S. dilemma. The fact of economic life which Harry Truman refused to face is that there is not enough of everything in the world to go around...
Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
...titled "A discussion of the contemporary dilemma of American liberalism," Professor Lynd's speech is expected to maintain that this country's middle class is unable to take the lead in meeting the need for over-all democratic planning in American society...
...relative blame of any one group or factor? And to what purpose? For of far more importance is the question whether there is any single corrective or punitive measure to be taken to halt inflation now. Unfortunately, there seems to be no simple answer, no resolvable black or white dilemma, no precedent in the past; only unpleasant alternatives for a general policy which pose troublesome questions. Would ending European aid to check internal inflation be worth the political, economic, and moral risks Could controls he restored without black markets, or taxes raised without lost elections; or are voluntary cuts...
...Faces a Dilemma...