Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calling for greater support of active American participation in the dilemma, Crossman said that "if the American Government had agreed to back the Commission Report with troops, the 100,000 would be in Palestine...
...smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing's admittedly eccentric profession fills her with deep insecurity and a sense of her husband's unstable character. Fortunately, while she broods about her soap opera dilemma, Bing has an opportunity to sing snatches of some 21 lovely songs and Astaire goes into his dance...
Then a musty, rejected plan was fished out of the records of a previous commission for re-examination. That plan, partition, now looms as the one practical and almost acceptable solution to the Palestine dilemma, if the Jews are to have the feeling of "belonging" somewhere and if their escape from Europe is to be complete and final. At the same time, the Arab fear of an extensive Jewish overrunning of the Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade...
Then Hannegan and Sullivan were off to Chicago to assess the damage in the Midwest and to try to get the National Committee machine back on its bearings. Illinois was a fair sample of the dilemma many Democratic leaders faced. A Republican trend was running; the G.O.P. was given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor...
...wave of protests hit Washington. Riding the wave was a formidable figure: John L. Lewis. He posed a formidable dilemma: his coal miners could not work on "cereals and vegetables" and there was "grave unrest" among them. Meat-famished miners had walked out of five collieries in Virginia. Touring a mine area in West Virginia, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug agreed with Lewis that miners must have more meat...