Word: defunction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from his studies toward a professorship, he turned to politics. In 1917 the Karensky government sent him to this country as Secretary for the new Republican State at Washington. Since then Dr. Karpovich has been several years in Washington and New York, liquidating the affairs of the defunct Kerensky administration...
...grandfather, "Uncle Tommy" Meredith, ran a newspaper in Des Moines, The Farmers' Tribune, which cheered for the defunct Populist party. Young Edwin did odd jobs for his grandfather, finally took over the paper. At 25, he jumped at a new publishing venture, started a monthly journal called Successful Farming. The magazine faltered at first, then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were...
...pits and pitfalls, of derricks and ditches. From Dunster Street to Holyoke Street, the block fronting on Mount Auburn Street has been removed, and building will start on new structures to be erected there in the near future. The Dunster Street corner will support a reincarnation of the defunct "Splendid" Restaurant, until last year situated in Harvard Square, while no announcement has been made regarding the remainder of the block...
...today would be sufficient to protect an independent Philippine nation from external aggression dictated by the biologic urge of self-preservation. National necessity and economic imperatives have proved the impotence of the diplomatists' declarations that their nations will respect political independence and territorial integrity. The sovereign independence of the defunct kingdom of Korea was guaranteed in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, and yet in 1905 an amendment to this alliance gave Japan imperialistic rights in Korea, and shortly after, the political independence of Korea was a thing of the past. Such would be the case with the Philippine Islands...
...Spanish Governor of Cuba (1896-97), not only taxed Cuban industry into bankruptcy and pocketed the taxes, but sold Spanish arms to Cuban rebels through secret agents-finally sent troops to seize the arms and execute the "traitors." Last week General Weyler's supporters in the now defunct revolution paid in haste fines imposed by Dictator Primo de Rivera, considered themselves lucky that no worse befell them. General Weyler, relying on his prestige with the Spanish army, curtly refused to pay his fine. Promptly Dictator Primo, not easily balked, sent a detail of police to seize the amount...