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...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...
...Review of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contemplating U. S. housing, last week pictured the "houses of the future." Previewer was John Ely Burchard 2nd, of Boston, professional investigator of new methods and materials for building. He finds "the home of the poor man ... an economic paradox," pays no attention to the home of the rich man "who can afford to remodel anything to his personal desire...
...Runciman Paradox- In London last week came this supreme paradox: Tycoon Walter Runciman, the great Liberal shipping man (Royal Mail and associated companies) whose family stands rooted in the business and politics of Free Trade, was obliged personally to draft and put into effect measures making nearly all manufactured articles liable to a British tariff up to 100% ad valorem. Thus historically he hauled down the standard of Free Trade...
There are two causes behind this paradox. One is the natural desire of donors to see their gift take permanent and tangible form, as in a building, and their natural reluctance to sink money in the bottomless pool of unattached funds. The other important factor that has been overlooked is the lack of proportion shown in apportioning money within a given fund. It is bad planning of this sort that decks house libraries lavishly with Oriental rugs while it scrimps on accomodations for the tutors who are so essential to the full working of the house plan...