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...Paradox is that these results were palatable to New Dealers and conservatives alike. New Dealers could cheer on the theory that less public spending by the States may mean more ultimate power to gargantuan Washington. But conservatives figured that if people have tired of fancy State expenditures, they may one day turn on Washington also...
Franklin Roosevelt's anti-inflation program produced a neat socio-political paradox last week. It turned out that the New Deal had taken control over all wages and salaries in the land, had set a $25,000 ceiling on earned income-but had let the nation's coupon clippers go scot free. It was enough to make a New Dealer weep...
...American labor movement that clings tenaciously to 19th century unionism and coyly condones 20th century labor gangsterism, making hostages out of thousands of unwary small business men, and virtual economic prisoners of hundreds of thousands of its won trapped members cannot mortally attack dictatorialism in other quarters. The paradox of such an attack and refusal to cooperate with Soviet labor would only be another A.F. of L. skeleton to file and forget were it not for the dangerous international repercussions involved...
...Nehru, who has written as revealingly of his own thoughts and beliefs as any man since Henry Adams, Gandhi is the great paradox-an arch reactionary,-yet the greatest revolutionary leader of his time. Invariably Nehru has swung to Gandhi's side, often in subsequent amazement that so mystical a character could, by instinct, sense the time for mass movements and the means to arouse public support...
...down both coasts last week some 125,000 weather-worn fishermen bemoaned a wartime paradox: despite high prices and the biggest demand ever, many a fisherman loafs at home while many a home goes without fish. Chief reason: more than 400 of the biggest and most efficient fishing boats, Navy-manned, are now hard at work as mine sweepers and patrol boats. Japanazi submarines keep all but the most daring fishermen close inshore...