Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt's Reasons. Obviously the biggest single factor in NRA's renewal is that Franklin Roosevelt wants it renewed. As a parent it would certainly pain him to see the favorite Recovery child of his Administration die a death of legal limitation -especially after he has so often praised it for abolishing child labor. But it is dear to him for other reasons as well. He promised the U. S. a new order, social and economic. Most of his Administration's acts have not, however, attempted to set up such an order but rather to repair...
Midget Lon Freed, second high scorer of the League last year, was a potent factor in Cornell's offense. This game lifts Cornell from undisputed last in the League to a tie with the Feslermen for the cellar position...
...Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victor's heels and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today, while still lacking an army, becomes a factor of might once more." THE LOCARNO PACT was prettied up in "The Spirit of Locarno" by being tied with what was called "blue ribbon, the color of the Blue Bird of Happiness, the color of peace." Supplemental Locarno accords were made even prettier with a Maypole effect achieved by intertwining ribbons in the colors of the signatory states. Inevitably this lush, pre-Depression spirit gave way to the spirit...
...sure, Dean Pound appears to recognize the increasing demands for individualistic treatment, and his recommendation of a fourth year seems to be designed as a step in this direction. But what is not stressed, and what should be a moving factor in any changes that are made at the Law School, is that modern law is based not so much upon legal technicalities, as upon political, social, and economic considerations. The mere addition of courses in sociology, economics, and government to the curriculum would not meet the problem. It is a change in the basic method of approach--a change...
...WHITE-HEADED EAGLE - Richard G. Montgomery - Macmillan ($3.50). Biography of the adventurer who became chief factor of Hudson's Bay Co. in the Columbia River country. He married a half-breed Indian woman, founded the trading post at Vancouver, and was a good uncle to the Indians...