Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost" factor was provided by negotiations in Hankow last week between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo...
...abnormal responses of the body as being solely due to specific infections agents or even to age alone. The role played by the stresses and strains of living in the initiation of various types, of acute and chronic illness is difficult of analysis, but it is nevertheless a factor in the lives of all who attempt to meet their responsibilities...
...Certainly there seems to be little common understanding of the function and management of money in our personal and social living, of taxation, of profit as a factor in business and as a motive of industrial enterprise, and of the relations between government and individual initiative in promoting production and employment," he said...
...Rumania's elections. Any Premier, no matter how unpopular, traditionally wins the election in Rumania if he has the support of the King. One reason for this is that the police always "work for the King's candidate" (four people were killed last week) and this factor alone has been found by experience to be worth 20% of the votes. If a Premier can then poll 20% more on his own popularity he is sure of a majority, for under Rumania's specially tailored electoral law any party winning 40% of the vote is automatically given...
...Smith was the old Guaranty Co. President, Joseph Rockwell Swan, to whom Senator Wheeler once remarked, in connection with Van Sweringen financing: "I do not doubt your good faith but I do doubt your judgment." The old firm had capital and the Guaranty men had connections-most important factor in investment banking. Among the new partners from Guaranty Co. was a man named Fish...