Word: defunction
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...befits this somewhat ghostly book (it was written from material collected by the defunct Louisiana WPA writers' project), its best stories for non-Orleanians are ghost stories...
...Navy Day," as stated by TIME [Oct. 29], was indeed a "stirring performance and great publicity show." Where ships could not go, admirals were sent to make pleas on behalf of the near-defunct battleship and cruiser. A great show, indeed-and all at the cost of the taxpayer...
...blooming Boston Yanks, who merged this year with the defunct Brooklyn Tigers. They have Brooklyn's bruiser backs Pug Manders and Ace Parker to help George Cafego, and their Q-T formation has already rolled over the Washington Redskins...
They began by buying the printing plant of the defunct Brighton, Mass. Item for $5,500. John Dos Passos, anxious to encourage both the ambitions of the ex-G.I.s and the literary future of New England, promised them a piece on "What's Wrong in New England." Price: a $10 share of stock, a dinner and two beers. For another $10 share of stock, no dinner and no beers, they got Sinclair Lewis to promise an article on New England's writers...
Harry Truman recalled the old teachings of Kansas City's now defunct Pendergast machine, which pushed him into big-time politics: never forget a friend or an enemy. When Attorney General Biddle began to consider a fourth-term renomination for Maurice Milligan, U.S. attorney in Kansas City who sent platoons of Pendergast henchmen to jail for vote frauds, Harry Truman balked, told newsmen he preferred a friend in Milligan's place. Pressed for a further reason, the Vice President, who had campaigned for Term IV for Franklin Roosevelt, explained: "[Milligan's] been in office twelve years...