Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago kidnapping of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's son Jerome (TIME, April 24): Jerome's return early one morning. Factor claimed he had gulled the kidnappers by publishing a letter he had written to himself, boosting the ransom price. They began to suspect a traitor among themselves...
...fortnight a schoolboy in Fond du Lac, Wis. wrote to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who chews gum: "What part has gum played in your success?" Gumchewer Farley wrote back, "I don't know whether gum played any part in my success, but it was not a retarding factor." Last week the boy crowed back, "My assistant principal said chewing gum was a bad habit, that no gumchewer could succeed. I read your letter in the class, and it got a lot of applause...
...years ago John ("Jake the Barber") Factor was fighting extradition to England on charges of having gulled Britons of some $5,000,000 (TIME, June 8, 1931). Hearing that Chicago kidnappers had marked him, he paid Chicago Gang Leader Alphonse Capone to tell them, "Lay off Jake Factor-or else. . . ." Last week, with Capone in jail, four men jumped out of a car on a Chicago street and grabbed Factor's anemic Son Jerome, 19, Northwestern University Junior. They wrote Factor, who is still at large, to get ready $50,000 in small bills or receive Jerome "in parts...
...will find it carefully explained that groups of friends will be allowed to enter the Houses under the new plan as before; further, that the Houses at present are alike except in financial and architectural details, very dubious basis for differentiation in membership, though they were undoubtedly the determining factor which caused several hundred Freshmen to stampede for Eliot House. If "corporate personality" is to develop it might have a firmer foundation than wash basins...
...season, the Junior Varsity baseball team will meet Tufts at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. Since formal practice only started on Monday under the supervision of Coach Janvrin, the Crimson's hopes for this afternoon's contest are at best doubtful. As a compensating factor, however, material for the team has appeared excellent during the first few days of practice...