Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suavely deflated. Men whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate to his income would be charged for the finest attention...
...bulls. He warned that the Federal Reserve policy of tight money might "produce a business slump without intending to do so." On the other hand, he warned that relaxing the policy might result in more credit going "directly into the speculative loans." Between the two horns of the dilemma, he sought a legislative solution. Perhaps the law might be amended to give the Federal Reserve "a commanding position . . . controlling all the elements . . . in the credit situation...
News of the beggars' dilemma, the bakers' strike, was partly disseminated by the Davar, Hebrew labor daily, which last week was given a linotype machine, equipped to compose in Hebrew and English, by the National Labor Committee for the Organized Jewish Workers in Palestine, headquarters in New York City...
Wisconsin approached its Republican gubernatorial primary in a trilemma. The factors of an oldtime dilemma were there -La Follettism v. Regularity-Candidate Joseph David Beck v. Fred R. Zimmerman, the present Governor. To these a third candidate had added himself, Candidate Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., and Kohler Plumbing. A fourth man, John Ferris, was also running...
...defenders of the administration answer that taxes have been reduced, they find themselves in a similar dilemma. The total taxes collected are $24,000,000 more than in the first year of the Coolidge administration. While tax rates have been reduced and some Wartime taxes abandoned, the government actually took from the people in income taxes $383,000,000 more during the last fiscal year than during the first year of the Coolidge administration. And even these reductions in tax rates have been brought about primarily because the administration has committed the government to appropriations authorized but not made, amounting...