Word: defunction
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With no loud cheers from either labor or management, the President this week named William Hammatt Davis chairman of his War Labor Board. The Administration took the silence as a tribute to the impartiality of Mr. Davis as chairman of the now-defunct National Defense Mediation Board. Other members of the new Board...
...other profitable landmarks in Little, Brown's long history were the purchase, in 1898, of the list of Boston's now defunct Roberts Brothers, and a joint publishing agreement in 1925 with the Atlantic Monthly Co. The Roberts list brought Little, Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like...
...with somewhat of a shock that T read in the Nov. 3 issue of TIME that my pet baby was dead, as TIME referred to the "defunct Judge...
...contrast to its defunct rivals the Liberal Union has been active-successfully campaigning, picketing, protecting, civil-liberty. If this is a war for freedom Harvard men may well spend the ardors elicited by its outbreak in actively promoting the American cause. Rejection of civil enterprise is denial of democracy. Executive Council, Harvard Liberal Union...
Onetime amateur fighter, itinerant football player (Ohio Wesleyan, Miami University, Washington & Jefferson), salesman, press agent, insurance executive, promoter of newspaper goodwill, Ohio-born Publisher Newman once published Fourth Estate (later sold to Editor & Publisher}, was organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, was the last publisher of defunct Judge. His latest publishing venture was the Senator, a Washington gossip magazine which piled up $84,000 debts in 27 issues...