Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your otherwise complete article on Paul McNutt, you failed to mention whether he was a Mason. I have recently heard from both Masons and non-Masons that no man will ever go to the White House who is not a 32nd Degree Mason. If true, here is a political factor far more important than the Legion. How many of our Presidents have been Masons, and how do the prospective 1940 candidates stand in this respect...
...five German divisions in motion near Breslau; schools in Bohemia transformed into hospitals; troops and supplies moving east through Ostmark*-all this convinced him that "it would be disastrous, it would be pathetic, it would be shameful for the House to write itself off as an effective and potent factor in the situation. . . ." If things were in dead balance, no move should be taken that might weaken resistance to aggression...
Obviously that meant more hours of work for the same pay, and pay-per-hour far below "prevailing" (union) rates for skilled labor. Administrator Harrington argued this would be "an important factor in determining need." WPA jobs, calling for 130 hours of work per month, would become less popular. Incentive to get private employment, and hold it, would be enhanced...
...conflict, however, is the fact that the Lake Bor district lies directly across the probable line of march of a Japanese invasion into central Siberia, and on the left flank of a Russian attack on the Japanese positions in North China. Control of Outer Mongolia may be the decisive factor in a future Russo-Japanese...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Milwaukee last week, Dr. Victor George Heiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) made a powerful plea for proper stoking of the human machine. Science has proved, said he, that the greatest factor in longevity is correct eating...