Word: defunction
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Died. Marcus Garvey, 53, Jamaica-born Negro leader ("Emperor Marcus 1") of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, purple-gowned head of the Sublime Order of the Nile and the Knights of Uganda ; in London. He organized the Black Star steamship line to transport his people to their homeland, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, subsequently deported...
Husband Wanger, one of Midwick's few movie members, strove manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...
Largest of the Harvard Square dealers in tutoring notes, the College Tutoring Bureau with its now defunct affiliate, University Tutors, supplied 38 percent of all notes sold last year...
...little known as the defunct Federal League is tightlipped, bespectacled Clement Schwener, manager of the safe-deposit vaults of Boston's U. S. Trust Co. Kilterless baseball schedules of 25 years ago annoyed his mathematical mind...
...sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...