Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liberals' Dilemma- If Franklin Roosevelt had offered his Court plan saying, "Here's your baby. Now get to work for it," he could not have more clearly summoned the liberals of the U. S. to back him up. For liberals have for two years been complaining that the Supreme Court or the Constitution had to be altered to carry out their social and economic plans, and finally the President was offering to show them how. But Senator Ashurst's demonstration of the "mildness" of the President's plan proved almost too much for liberals to stomach...
...exclusion of the Soviet Union. Mr. Baldwin's unanswerable argument for this is that it would give a "Feeling of Security" and not even the logical French can prove or disprove a feeling. Over in Paris last week Premier Léon Blum was facing the awful dilemma whether Paris should loosen its ties with Moscow, move with London and Rome nearer to Berlin to achieve a "Feeling of Security." "Mr. Smith." Obviously this week the Western Pact of Adolf Hitler's dreams and schemes was not yet in the bag, but Ambassador von Ribbentrop received the significant...
...packing the court. For some this is the final unforgivable sin, the long-feared crime, marking the climax of an unsavory career. For others, who sympathize with such New Deal aims as social security, minimum wage laws, or conservative measures, the new proposal creates an embarrassing and highly unpleasant dilemma. The ends meet with nothing but approval; but the suggestion of packing the court to obtain these ends meets with nothing but censure...
...smalltown New England druggist. Jim is the kind of man who pays his debts, faces his business troubles courageously, acknowledges his responsibility to the community by serving on the :own council. A natural point of pressure from both the haves and the havenots, Jim runs into his first dilemma when the town's poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise taxes. The boycott on his store which follows Jim's honest decision...
...them. Ruth's crowd also has machine guns and the streets are just about ready to run with his fellow citizens blood when Druggist Cogswell gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist way the American way out of the local dilemma. This consists in arresting the ravening leaders of both factions, exporting the scabs, disarming the factory guards, dispersing the picket line and forcing a reasonable agreement on both sides by an aroused and forceful civic leadership...