Word: defunction
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...back at the accusations made against him personally Cadden said "They are untrue in their entirety. I never wrote for a Communist paper, as the National Foundation said, and I was never executive secretary of the A. S. U." When asked about the reference to his membership in the defunct "League for Peace and Democracy," he answered "I don't know what that is--I never heard of it." He also denied any "Red" tinge...
...have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens can believe possible; but the U. S. is taking no chance of being caught unawares if dissatisfaction develops in British labor. Before the Winant appointment was a week old it was disclosed that Benjamin Cohen, of the defunct New Deal law-writing team of Corcoran & Cohen, would accompany him to London as counselor-of-embassy...
Finding him "grossly negligent in the performance of his duties as a director," Judge John Clark Knox ruled in Manhattan Federal Court that pious, stockbreeding Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, as chairman (and only non-dummy director) of Miami's defunct City National Bank, must pay for losses sustained by depositors and stockholders when the bank flopped in 1930. Likely sum due depositors (in addition to the 40% already paid them...
Many a citizen in the past three years has wanted to reform the reforms of the New Deal, to install standards of judicial fair play in the reform agencies. First effort to reform the reformers was the defunct Logan-Walter bill (for legal tests of administrative rulings), which might have thrown so much sand in the gears that nearly all New Deal agencies would have ground to a halt. In vetoing the bill, President Roosevelt reminded Congress that his Attorney General's committee had been working for two years on the same question, had still to report...
When Newsman Hudler turned him down two months ago, Losey bought an abandoned box factory on the outskirts of Noblesville, started the Fellowship Press. From Asheville, N. C., he imported presses on which Fascist Pelley used to turn out his defunct Silvershirt organ, Liberation. He denied that Pelley had any connection with Fellowship Press, later admitted that he would publish Pelley's treatise on "metaphysics and esoterics...