Word: defunction
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...embezzling in his bank in 1923, after another bank that he had set up in Hong Kong suddenly went broke. Because the news came to San Francisco by steamship, Charlie knew nothing of it for three weeks, continued to send some $80,000 in clients' deposits to the defunct bank-and down the drain...
...York dailies. The New York Post cut him loose for not writing about pretty girls during the week after Pearl Harbor; Goldberg, who normally loves such assignments, churlishly refused on the ground that, considering the times, there were more important subjects to write about. On PM, the long-defunct intellectual tabloid, he was asked so many times to gather man-on-the-street reaction to stirring events that he once rebelled and interviewed 35 New Yorkers all named Hyman Goldberg. To his surprise, his story was a resounding success...
...forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Burton's voice and Welsh background also made him a natural for the documentary, A Tribute to Dylan Thomas, winner of a Hollywood Oscar a fortnight ago. *A housemaid's journal in Britain, now defunct. -Rex is suing...
...trading in shares of client companies, a practice frowned on by the SEC because the public may not be aware that the "information which it receives comes from an interested source." The SEC added that "the most active trader among public relations men" was Jerry Finkelstein, president of now defunct Tex McCrary, Inc., who, among other deals in clients' stock, made $2,100,000 trading in Universal Controls...
Tribute to Mother. With this in mind, Nasser mounted a platform in Cairo's vast Republic Square last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of his defunct United Arab Republic. Strings of Ramadan lights outlined the mosques and minarets, and a crowd of 20,000 jammed the square protected from the cold night air by a siwan, a "hall" roofed and walled by brightly colored canvas. "Union! Union! Union! Nasser! Nasser! Nasser!" roared the mob. What it got was a little less than Nasser had hoped for. The leaders of the Iraqi delegation to the celebration, Deputy Premier...