Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommended that tutorial work be as important a factor in promotion in the University as lecturing...
...British foreign investments. So the pound was forced to par. Interest rates at London were fixed high to attract foreign deposits. A $200,000,000 credit was obtained in New York. It was never used. Britain's sheer determination to restore sterling's prestige was a chief factor in doing so. Par was reached when the Treasury contracted to sell gold to all comers. To prevent hoarding of gold sovereigns, pound notes were not redeemable at their face value in gold, but if a Briton could collect about $8,000 worth of paper money he could...
...directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience. He was in charge of the McAlpin (Manhattan) when the late General Coleman du Pont asked him to take over the old Waldorf. He is a big factor in Sherry's and the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, also has a large interest in the Savarin chain of high-grade restaurants in Manhattan. The new Waldorf directors also include such celebrities as General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad; Edward Wentworth Beatty of Canadian Pacific; Robert Goelet, Manhattan real...
...Biggest Factor. To answer this question the President summoned to the White House Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board and William L. Clayton of Houston, head of Anderson & Clayton, largest U. S. cotton factors. In 1926 Messrs. Hoover, Meyer & Clayton had worked together to move the record crop out of the country and hold up the domestic price. Mr. Clayton then had his foreign agents induce spinners to buy heavily as a good investment, with the result that 15% of the 1926 crop was moved by the Clayton firm. At last week's White House conference a plan...
...collected. It might be two years before the whole sum is raised. Destitute, desperate, many teachers have accepted "script." an I. O. U. from the city, cashable for much less than its face value. First day of registration, high school enrolment was 18,000 greater than last year. A factor: more grammar school graduates were going to high school rather than hunt for jobs...