Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half a dozen attempted ones, burst violently into the news last week. Swindler. Three weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago celebrated for good orchestras and bad customers, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, his shapely second wife and Son Jerome, 19, were entertaining a party of friends. "The Dells" is about three miles from the Evanston line on a wide and main-traveled concrete road. Not far down it, on the way home, Jake the Barber's car was stopped by thugs...
...name, Julien M. Saks. You have many Jewish readers-ardent ones. Should the Jewish people (I happen to be President of this section of Council of Jewish Women) seriously consider boycotting your magazines you probably would awaken to the realization that the Jews in this country are quite a factor and wield a wide influence. Am writing this as a friendly protest. Your future consideration of the subject will guide my actions. MRS. LOUIS SAKS Birmingham...
...representations to the U. S. State Department, claiming that Factor's abduction was a ruse under which he was making an escape to Mexico in order to avoid extradition to England, where charges resulting from the $7,000,000 coup are pending. But Jake the Barber was neither in Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida or Mexico. He never left Illinois. An unnamed friend turned over $50,000 to some unnamed men in an automobile, reputedly at Hinsdale, western Chicago suburb. After twelve days in captivity. Factor was released at La Grange, 111., three blocks from the police station. His clothes were...
...bred out of a family by judicious marriage. Like light hair, it is a genetically recessive characteristic, whereas resistance to cancer is like dark hair, a dominant characteristic. Susceptibility alone probably is not enough to insure a person's developing a cancer. There must also be an external factor (a bruise, for example) reacting with an internal factor (chronic irritation of the stomach, for example). Breeding mice, caring for them until they died of age or disease, and then cutting them open for microscopic study led Professor Slye to these conclusions. She started raising mice when...
Another hormone discovered by Dr. Evans is diabetogenic. Contrary to insulin, this pituitary factor causes the body to accumulate sugar...