Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match which according to eye witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks on the same Forest Hills courts. This is of course partly explained by the equality of the two players, a factor which few will contend existed in the amateur championship play. But it is nevertheless significant that pro tennis is taking its place among the recognized sporting spectacles...
...heroine, June Collyer, makes a very pleasant nurse in feature and form, and to our mind the appearance of the leading lady in the average movie is often the deciding factor in placing it on the right or the wrong side of the fence...
...British Labor Government, that both war stocks and trained reserves should be put back on the list of "armaments" which the Preparatory Commission is seeking ways to reduce. Stressing particularly the urgency of limiting engines of warfare, Lord Cecil cried: "I consider machines rather than men the most vital factor in the world movement to end war. Nonlimitation of war materials is equivalent to non-disarmament...
Officers were announced as Mr. Rand, president, Ernest Stauffen Jr., chairman of the board of directors, Harral S. Tenney, vice president. Banker Stauffen, enthusiastic, has been a prime mover in group banking, was perhaps principal factor in formation of Marine Midland Corp. But unlike Banker Rand, Mr. Stauffen did not learn his banking behind cages and over ledgers. Graduated from Columbia in 1904, he practiced law, then became vice president in charge of finance of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan merchants. In 1915 he was made a vice president of the Liberty National Bank, kept the position when this institution was merged...
...been the Mohawk-Hudson power interest that has brought the Morgan Company most of its publicity as a utility factor. Mohawk-Hudson was organized jointly by United Gas Improvement and General Electric. It functions throughout northeastern New York, with Albany its southern centre. In June (TIME, June 24) two other New York state utilities merged with Mohawk-Hudson, extended the Mohawk-Hudson territory west to Buffalo and northeast along the St. Lawrence. The merged company was christened Niagara-Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although...