Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle and Far East there is, the Commission found, a notable absence of that "vulgarity" common in brothels of the West.* Most Asiatics prefer to hire women of their own race. Solemnly the Commission postulates and advises that: 1) The principal factor in promotion of the international traffic in women in the East is the brothel. 2) The most effective remedy is abolition of the licensed brothel. 3) The most serious problem, so far as Occidental victims are concerned, is provided by the Russian women refugees in Manchuria and Northern China. 4) A large majority of Chinese prostitutes enter...
Finally, as pointed out by a recent article in the New Republic, the question arises as to whether the control of currency is a real factor in the prevention of such economic extremities as the present depression. The claims of Technocracy show that it is not; the exponents of socialistic reform have long belittled its importance; and even common-sense replies in the negative. By adopting so drastic a step as inflation, the nation not only places itself in a doubtful position, but it affirms that the basis of the present troubles lies no deeper than the workings...
...birthday, good Britons are rewarded by their sovereign with titles, promotions, ribbons, For at least five years British art dealers have awaited the honors lists with one question uppermost: Would Sir Joseph Duveen, Britain's best known art dealer, finally get his peerage? Sir Joseph, head factor of the firm of Duveen Bros, of Paris, London & New York, has done much to earn himself the honor. He has been lavish with gifts to the British Museum and the Tate Gallery. When young British artists accused him of unfriendliness to modern art Sir Joseph, one of the world...
...good many will perhaps be inclined to attribute the general improvement in scholarship chiefly to the depression, which has caused students in take their work more seriously and is strive harder to make grades which would entitle them to consideration for scholarships. This factor no doubt has played some part and may be a partial explanation for a general improvement in all of the classes. It should not be forgotten, however, that for some time there has been a gradual increase in the proportion of students who are candidates for honors and in those who graduate with honors...
...Brussels last week it became known that King Albert, always a major factor in Belgian crises, recently consulted famed French Economist Francis Delaisi and said pensively to him at their last conference in the Royal Palace: "I am profoundly convinced that our civilization is at a turning point. Can we maintain it as it has been? That is the problem which haunts me day and night. Do you know, M. Delaisi, I find myself strangely preoccupied by what is going on in Russia. Is it the end of all civilization which is being prepared there...