Word: defunction
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Despite the trial's tedious length, it took the jury only three days to return a verdict of guilty against three stockbrokers, a defunct brokerage firm, and a former head of the United Dye & Chemical Corp. All were accused of conspiring to swindle the public out of $5,000,000 through some elaborate manipulation of 500,000 shares of United Dye stock...
...legend eluded him, and he left the Tribune to pursue it on other publications, even venturing as far west as Philadelphia. In eight months there, as editor of the Evening Public Ledger (now defunct), he found nothing of value, he said, but an all-night delicatessen. He went back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen...
...defendants-three stockbrokers, a defunct brokerage firm, and a onetime head of United Dye & Chemical Corp.-are accused of defrauding the public of $5,000,000 in a conspiracy to sell 500,000 shares of United Dye stock through the use of false information and illegal high-pressure tactics. To date there have been more than 20,800 pages of testimony, 1,330 exhibits and 90 witnesses. Two jurors have been excused-one for illness, the other for financial hardship. Says Judge William B. Herlands patiently: "The symbol of justice is not the clock but the scales...
...that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still, flatly urged the "defunct Arab League" to end its "ridiculous" boycott procedures...
...State Department looked askance when Castro replaced the defunct Batista bureaucracy with a Communist machine, why does it not draw some hope from this reversal...