Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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California primary, first direct contest between the leading candidates, is of great importance psychologically as well as numerically. California is farthest from New York. California contains a curious mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent...
...nearly as the Treasury Department could tell last week, the month's tax collections would total some $515,000,000, or a little more than for the corresponding quarter last year. But the nature of these returns was such as to predict diminishing returns in the remaining quarters of the year. Individual incomes appeared to have risen in the past year, while corporation incomes dropped off. Corporations had evidently increased their dividends. Private individuals, attracted by high prices, had taken their securities out of deposit and sold them at larger profits. Thus, while the U. S. Treasury surplus...
...means to so zestful a plunger in statescraft as Winston Churchill may be sensed by recalling that eleven months ago the Laborites were tearing his estimates to tatters. At that time the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, the only Laborite ever to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared formally: "I predict that ... the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit...
...First, I deny that any man can predict the time or place of the next earthquake in California. . . . Southern California is but a small spot along the great...
...vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what a lot of nasty feminist propaganda this is. Give Cecil Dixon the eyes wistful and blue, and riding breeches that fit in that certain way, and about nine o'clock it becomes fairly easy to predict the chances of our side...