Word: factor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embattled Agriculture Secretary was, as Loveless sensed, a big factor in the campaign. The Fourth District's farmers have been hit by falling prices,* and they reflect accurately the national discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to dissociate himself from Ezra Benson: "Please note that I do not run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr. Benson most certainly is not a candidate in this district." But Democrat Gilmour, associate professor of political science at Grinnell College and a hardworking, handshaking campaigner, poured it on: "A vote...
...concrete pillbox in which the status quo is armed and entrenched. On the contrary, a single role of law, the sanctity of contract, has been the vehicle for more explosive and extensive economic change in the world than any other factor. The principle that men must keep bargains is a fundamental of every great legal system the world has ever known...
...titled The Stolen Years, Touhy's rip-roaring life story, was published by Cleveland's Pennington Press. The hot volume, co-authored by Chicago Newsman Ray Brennan, is chiefly devoted to protesting Touhy's innocence of the wacky 1933 kidnaping of Swindler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a crime for which Touhy served 25 years of a 99-year stretch. The complaint against the book: it alleges that Factor committed wholesale perjury to railroad Touhy to the big house. Last week Jake the Barber, now a well-to-do Beverly Hills philanthropist, sued Pennington and seven other...
Said the National Cancer Institute's Dr. Roy Hertz: "In very rare instances, cancers have arisen in patients after very prolonged use of stilbestrol, and some physicians have been led to conclude that stilbestrol was a causative factor in these cases...
...appointed 23 years ago by F.D.R. and is known as a tough man on the bench, disregarded the trustbusters' recommendations. He fined the companies $20,000 and the individuals $5,000, plus the jail sentences, saying: "In cases of this character a fine is not a sufficient deterring factor." When defense attorneys protested that the jailing was unheard of. Underwood snapped: "There always has to be a first time...