Word: paradoxity
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...Front Government met its first major electoral test and came out a winner. Of more interest to the U. S. was the fact that the policy of cooperation with the U. S. was also put to a test and also came out a winner. This was something of a paradox because most elements of the Popular Front favor nationalism and neutrality against a pro-U. S. alignment in World...
Sometimes Rauschning's voice sounds like that of a prophet, sometimes like that of a clever Junker. He has little use for forces which most people are used to calling progressive. In a brilliant chapter, The Unseen Revolution, he lights up a paradox: "The true forces of reaction are not to be found . . . in the cliques of a privileged class. . . ." Far more reactionary are the doctrinaires who, in the name of economic security for the masses, have promoted "the idea of rational planning, which has come from the world of technology, where it belongs, to intrude on political...
...Wallace was the only Council wife so conspicuously clad. One wife had even neglected to bring the cotton dress required for admittance to the Council Ball. Grower Johnston also faced another paradox in the record of the Council's victories. The Council had successfully fought the use of foreign oils in the U. S., on behalf of cottonseed oil. Yet cotton-men have more to fear from anti-import nationalism than any other Americans for, unless the U. S. buys imports from abroad, foreigners have no exchange with which to buy U. S. cotton. In his plans for cotton...
Anglo-American. As a symbol of Anglo-American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother...
...Eeriest paradox of all was Wall Street. A capital-goods boom was under way with almost no help at all from private investment. The corporate securities markets did $1,666,805,000 of refundings during eleven months of 1940, but raised only $660,799,000 of new money. As the year ended, Wall Street, its best barometer, was huddled in the storm cellar with Confidence...