Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Electoral Votes are Vital Factor...
...conclude, then," said Herring, "the coming presidential election, of course must be thought of entirely in terms of electoral and not popular votes. It is the turning of the electoral vote tide that is the all-important factor. If we consider the returns of the last nine presidential elections, it appears that 23 states are normally Republican, 11 normally Democratic, and 14 usually doubtful states. There are certain Republican states such as Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine that shifted their allegiance in the split of 1912, and New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia which usually...
...crash of the Insull empire has given excellent point to the truth of what I have been arguing. The great Insull monstrosity' had distributed securities among hundreds of thousands of investors. ... It was an important factor in the lives of millions of people. The name was magic. . . . The investing public did not realize that there had been arbitrary write-ups of assets, inflation of vast capital accounts . . . that excessive prices had been paid for property acquired . . . that payments of dividends had been made out of capital . . . that some subsidiaries had been milked to keep alive weaker sisters in the chain...
...number likely to be involved does not exceed 2,500, and may not reach 1,500 for the entire United States. As there are virtually a million students in our higher institutions, this competitive factor is negligible...
...resourcefulness of its promotion staff is not the only factor in National Home Monthly's circulation gain. Within the past two years all the front-rank Canadian periodicals have come upon more or less better days. Prime reason is the Canadian tariff (as high as 15? a copy) on U. S. magazines, effective last year. Another reason is the depreciation of Canadian currency; after a U. S. publisher has scrambled over the tariff wall he finds himself accepting subscriptions in Canadian dollars worth U. S. 90?. Most important of all is Reason No. 3. Few U. S. publishers...