Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this majority voted for a rider which opposed both a moral embargo on Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral--an apparently paradoxical stand. Yet this stand is not a unique paradox it represents a fundamental dualism in the thinking of American liberals. These people idealistically believe in morality in international relations; but they are aware of the fact that Realpolitik, not Christian brotherhood, governs the world today...
Even if this paradox can be resolved, a basic confusion still remains: the confusion about the role of the Communist in a liberal coalition. The H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and the extension of democracy. In theory it embraces all those who subscribe to those broad aims. In practice, however, it averages in political thought somewhere to the left of New Dealism...
Ohio seemed an outstanding example of the paradox of want in the midst of plenty. But Ohio's trouble was not essentially economic. Clue to the paradox was Politics...
...volumes a rigorous rewriting in manuscript in 1935, he scaled down four opening chapters on the background of secession into one, making a packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time of growing violence, growing paradox, growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County...
...looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously...