Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...epidemic is still at the emergency stage. Any measure which officials consider necessary to stop it are justifiable and must be taken. Not until the event has become a part of history should the second and equally important factor be considered, that of allocating the blame and taking adequate steps to prevent its recurrence in the future...
...response to the question as to whether the Communistic party had an influence on unions, she declared that it makes no difference whether they had or not. "The important factor is whether they are sincere. Some leaders are dominated by the employers...
...There is no way to evade the truth that trade is a two-way affair, and that to have exports we must accept imports. . . . The controlling factor in our cotton export trade is the amount of American dollars in the hands of foreign nations wanting our cotton. This situation will get worse instead of better unless and until the American people are willing to accept greatly increased quantities of imports. There is no other way that I know of, short of giving our cotton away through ruinous prices or insecure loans, to regain our former volume of cotton exports...
...this last sepulchre of international action is most significant today when in Europe disillusion stalks armed with bayonets, and faith in anything except one's strong right arm marks a nation as a whimsical idealist. France's fortitude, if carried to its ultimate conclusion, will be a far greater factor in maintaining peace than appears on the surface. The old system of turning the entire country over to the military staff at the first sign of storm clouds was an enormous factor in preventing the localization of the conflict in 1914. When two mobilized armies glare at each other across...
...Harvard debaters will endeavor to prove that the campaign for Hawaiian statehood is being sponsored by the sugar interests of the island and that possibly the debate itself is a factor in that campaign. The main points of the argument whereby Hawaii will attempt to improve this contention have not been uncertained...