Word: defunction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalists that the Treaty cannot be abrogated except by mutual consent. Though the Japanese legal position is strong, Chinese consider it "outrageous" for Japan to demand the pound of flesh which is her due under this old treaty, originally signed with the Chinese Imperial Regime, which has been defunct for a decade and a half...
...Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. His method of transferring from the defunct Farm Revolt to the triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem...
...onetime "Richest Man in Hungary," Count Michael Karolyi, deposed and banished President of the defunct Hungarian Republic (1918-19), received at Mexico City, last week, two quaintly different cablegrams...
...onetime German Chancellor Wirth was the head; 2) The Caucasian manganese concessions let to W. A. Harriman and associates of Manhattan; and 3) the Lena Goldfields concession, granted to Britons. Generally speaking, Mr. Lee appears to mistrust the good faith of the Soviet Government in connection with the recently defunct Mologoles concessions and the Harriman scheme which is now going forward under a completely revised contract "far more favorable to Mr. Harriman...
Among the other efforts which, whatever their particular merits may or may not be, are unquestionably up to the Advocate standard are "Soliloquy" by C. D. Stillman. "Another 'Illustrious Defunct,'" by A. T. Burr, and practically of the book and play reviews. In book reviewing, the Advocate seems to have found a field especially well suited to the exercise of its talents...