Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need not be added that the personality of Woodrow Wilson himself was another factor raising this work above the general level of family chronicles. This intimate glimpse of his character should be highly valuable to later historians and biographers as an explanation of his enigmatical character, so capable of winning either passionate loyalty or violent hatred. Of especial value should be the passage describing his determination after his election to sacrifice the personal contacts usually demanded of a president in order to devote himself to the great task of leading the government. Dictated by his stern Presbyterian conscience this decision...
Professor Wild, speaking over the Colonial network, criticized sharply the new legislation as a peace-maintaining factor. Weighing the efforts of Congress to keep this country out of war, he said: "A simple reiteration of the legal fact that Americans travel and trade in wartime at their own risk that the government will not give them blanket protection in whatever they undertake, and the direction of energy into prevention of war now instead of this naive effort to keep us unentangled by a hodge-podge of embargoes and prohibitions these steps would be far more effective...
...days later she limped miraculously into Queensland, where Sir John, awake for once to the human factor of shipping, shook hands mightily with the captain...
...When industries organize themselves on a national scale, making their relation to interstate commerce the dominant factor in their activities, how can it be maintained that their industrial labor relations constitute a forbidden field into which Congress may not enter when it is necessary to protect interstate commerce from the paralyzing consequences of industrial...
...Sweezy and Walsh were not dismissed for their political beliefs or their affiliations with the labor movement. Of course the Council realizes that in a dynamic subject such as Economics it is difficult for one man to judge another without considering his fundamental social beliefs, but despite this factor, it seems that the senior members of the Economics Department and the Administration made their decision purely on the comparative ability...