Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help solve the dilemma, "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes had appointed a committee, headed by FEAdministrator Leo Crowley. It found no immediate solution. Hopkins & Co. cried that the committee was packed in favor of the Army...
...crisis arose on the trip to Yalta when the President observed his 63rd birthday. The President's chefs had baked a cake; so had the cooks for the officers' mess. It looked as though one group of chefs would be disappointed, until Daughter Anna Boettiger solved the dilemma. She ordered three more cakes, of varying sizes. The cakes were piled one on top of the other. The first four were labeled First Term, Second Term, Third Term, Fourth Term. On the top cake was a huge question mark. Wrote Correspondent Cornell: "It produced plenty of laughs...
...Harald Ramond had fought the Nazis in Vienna and Prague, was captured and escaped from Dachau, fought the Nazis again in France, then came to Hollywood as a bit player. Soon thereafter, Lupe became pregnant. And although her make-believe world had a solution even for this age-old dilemma, Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos could not bring herself to accept...
Franklin Roosevelt, having told intimates that he means to fire Jesse Jones, faced a knotty dilemma. The probable out: Jesse will stay, but the Commerce Department will be whittled down...
...public they deserved. Friedrich A. Hayek's brilliant exposition of the perils of collectivism, The Road to Serfdom, Hans Kohn's timely historical study, Idea of Nationalism, and Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal's profound analysis of the U.S. Negro problem, An American Dilemma, won high critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless...