Word: defunction
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Receiver Hummel granted the Hamilton's 46 resident members until the end of the month to vacate. Most puzzling problem of Manager B. E. O'Grady was what to do with a stuffed seated elephant, borrowed from the late President Lucius G. Fisher of the defunct Elephant Paper Bag Co., which has accompanied jubilant Hamilton crowds on their special train to Washington for every Republican inauguration since...
...this week to be seen at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, having been denied space in Grand Central Palace because American Bantam Car Co. has not been in production a year. Practically the same size, but better streamlined and twice as powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coup...
...farm at Trenton, Tenn. he found Trenton thinking not of the Rose Bowl but of War. After serving during the War as a cavalry captain, Wallace Wade surprised his neighbors by entering the apparently unpromising profession of football coach and athletic director, at Fitzgerald & Clarke Military School (now defunct) at Tullahoma, Tenn. When Fitzgerald & Clarke football teams won the State prep-school championship two years in a row, Coach Dan McGugin asked him to come to Vanderbilt as his assistant...
...could such non-fiction sales records, as reported up to last week, have been made. Only reasonable was it also that such sales should arouse the envy of magazine publishers. In the past fortnight two veteran publishers from opposite poles invaded the psychoanalytical & adult education field. One was the defunct Whiz-Bang's Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, the other the defunct Literary Digest's Wilfred John Funk...
...statement, he calmly announced that he would have none to make "at least until I return to the United States." Meanwhile, in the U. S. the story published last week by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Hugo Black had once been and still is a member of the nearly defunct Ku Klux Klan (TIME, Sept. 20), ceased to be a minor newspaper coup and became the prize political scandal of the year...