Word: defunction
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...round out his claim to a big place in history by participating in world affairs. Any European adventure would bring U. S. isolationists howling about his ears, but U. S. Presidents have a free rein to fool around in the western hemisphere. A Roosevelt Doctrine might succeed the defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should be engulfed in war. Such a creation might well be a springboard to boost...
...supercharger and promised speed of 110 m.p.h., at $14,000. No French, Italian, Czechoslovak or Japanese car was offered last week, though European Motors Inc. specializes in importing on order and servicing anything, however exotic.* A new firm of interest to swanksters was J. S. Inskip, Inc., successors to defunct Rolls-Royce of America Inc. in importing the English article. On their floor was one of the extremely few Phantom III models yet manufactured by Rolls-Royce Ltd., one of the first of these 12-cylinder cars having gone to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent. This...
That once spendid galleon, the Republican Party, is admittedly landlocked. It is not defunct; no party which polls sixteen million votes is dead, unless the official pronouncements of the dominant party make...
...least five names (some chosen by the sponsors). Bored by the U. S. Naval Academy, he spent his $150,000 patrimony on a leisurely trip around the world. Unsuccessful on the stage, he got a job at $18 a week introducing Jimmy Durante and Cab Galloway at the now defunct Silver Slipper night club, shortly stepped up into radio. He is one of very few public announcers whose voice can be used both in the U. S. and in England. Of his voice said the London Sunday Referee: "It has neither an American nor an English accent, but it grips...
...regular Class Officers are elected along with the officers of the upper classes, in January. These officers have a number of duties to perform in connection with the Jubilee, smokers and so forth and are considerably more active than the now defunct Sophomore and Junior Class Officers once were...