Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour week. Any decrease in hours of work, he said, must bring with it a decrease in the national income which the country can ill afford. One of the primary aims of the 30 hour week, according to Professor Haberler and his colleagues, is to remedy the paradox of "poverty amidst plenty," but said the former Austrian economist, to eliminate the plenty is not the solution
...American paradox of political democracy accompanied by discrimination against minorities was sharply criticized by Embree. In protesting against the segregation of Negro soldiers, he called attention to the fact that "we have set up a dual system of armies to defend a unified democracy...
...days after the shipping embargo, President Roosevelt came to the support of Hull's action. Said the President: "This situation presents the extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist in fluence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country ... at the very time that those forces of aggression are drawing ever closer in final defeat and judgment in Europe and elsewhere in the world. . . . The Argentine Government has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations...
...British paradox that Britons wanted last week was Beveridge without bureaucrats. The Government tried to give them what they wanted-a cradle-to-grave social security plan (cost $2,600,000,000) covering every man, woman & child in Britain...
...right to strike, their strongest bargaining weapon, as soon as possible. And the rank-&-filers at the convention were well organized around the Briggs Detroit Local No. 212, which has had 33 wildcat strikes since the first of the year. The chief argument of the rank-&-filers was a paradox: if the union were allowed to strike, it would not strike so often...