Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is, however, the usual Chinese paradox. Shantung is a maritime province and Han is a model governor but he has never held Shantung's vital seaports, Tsingtao and Chefoo...
...powerful control over the standards of modern advertising. Too often newspapers have though it possible to maintain a "courageous" editorial policy while at the same time maintaining an advertising and business policy that would stand little scrutiny; too few of the larger journals of the country have recognized the paradox of arguing vigorously in one column for industrial and political idealism and in the adjacent column ballyhooing an article by false advertisement or falsifying news to suit the caprice of an advertiser...
...Paradox: although France holds the largest store of monetary gold ever amassed in Europe, and although five-sevenths of the world's new gold is being mined in the British Empire, both French and British statesmen are agreed that they can pay their debts to the U. S. only to the extent that Germany pays them Reparations (see below). They cannot (i.e. will not) pay out of the stupendous gold stocks they hold and produce. The Allies seized from beaten Germany such of her colonies as produced gold. Today the Fatherland simply does not produce the bright metal...
...Partly with weapons we had sold to the Turks," cried Mr. Henderson, "a holocaust was inflicted upon the flower of the British Army at Gallipoli! That is a kind of paradox, my friends, against which the conscience of mankind is in revolt...
This was not the Depression's last paradox. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney was similarly begging uptown on the steps of the Public Library. Over the radio, trim Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the board chairman of potent Guaranty Trust Co., was exhorting a national audience,. So was intense little Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt. Out on Long Island and up in the fashionable suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, scores and scores of well-dressed ladies, wives of substantial, responsible businessmen, were earnestly parading the streets and highways in their family automobiles, blaring their horns steadily with large blue & white banners...