Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grace of the myriad straw votes and polls. First in size and length of reach, William Randolph Hearst once more received the contemptous disdain of the people of the United States as his major candidates and platforms were universally junked. The myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm Journal polls went into the discard, hurled from their crowing perches by the enormity of their...
...return to the old rule is not desirable. As the Student Council stated, it should be revised and standardized. The lack of system in previous years was without doubt a contributory factor in the demand for stricter regulations. A plan that would be convenient and at the same time effective, like the Oxford card system, would meet with general approval. It is clear that some change is called for, and in formulating the new plan President Conant and the Masters would do well to take into their confidence a delegation from the student body which has every desire to smooth...
...Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take at any price the risk of what Edward VIII might do. In the eyes of British businessmen he had ceased last week to be the "Empire Salesman" and had become a most unsettling factor in trade...
...Spain the forces of the proletariat and the landed aristocracy are very great because there is relatively no middle class. The Catholic Church is a tremendous factor in the Fascist cause because it owns approximately one fourth of all the land in Spain. It is because of this condition that we find Spanish peasantry pillaging churches in much the same manner that French revolutionaries burned the homes of the wealthy nobility. The same situation of tenant-farming that we have in the South, exists in Spain under far more extreme circumstances...
...graph, charting this parallel record of the expanding use of liquor with the general upward trend in automobile deaths, becomes its own commentator and manifestly makes it difficult . . . to successfully challenge the conclusion that an increased consumption of alcoholic beverages must be regarded as a definite factor in the endlessly growing record of automobile tragedy...