Word: defunction
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...Manhattan court, it was revealed that pale, limping, hemophilic Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, the Count of Covadonga, 29, eldest son of deposed Alfonso XIII of Spain, technical adviser and salesman with Manhattan's defunct British Motors, Ltd., had pledged part of his share of the Span ish crown jewels as security against loans of "considerable sums...
Anderson, Clayton & Co. grew rapidly, taking over gins, branches and business from the defunct firm with which Will Clayton got his start. The firm promoted the round bale (250 Ib.) of uniform consistency which requires only one man to handle it and particularly pleases foreign buyers who deplore the shabby wrapping of the rest of U. S. cotton. Today Anderson, Clayton operate traveling gins in sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior...
Nearly 1,000 trusts, extant and defunct, will be examined before SEC sends its report to Congress next January with recommendations for regulatory legislation. In charge is Commissioner Robert E. Healy, the grey-haired Vermont Republican who conducted most of the six-year investigation of public utility holding companies for the Federal Trade Commission. His first lieutenant is Paul P. Gourrich, a demon statistician who used to work for Kuhn, Loeb & Co. If his German accent were not so pronounced, Paul Gourrich might have been Commissioner Healy's inquisitor. Asking the questions last week was David Schenker, a bright...
...Pope-Toledo and the Pope-Hartford, Theodore MacManus has been famed as an automotive adman. Born in Buffalo 60-odd years ago ("I have never bothered to look it up"), he has at one time or another written copy for practically every existent make of automobile, many a defunct one. Cadillac and Pontiac are now the chief accounts of MacManus, John & Adams Inc. "T. F." MacManus has never learned to drive...
Last week in Chicago one of the survivors wrote a neat chapter into radio history. Zenith Radio Corp. bought the West Side plant of defunct Grigsby-Grunow Co., whose Majestic line, and common stock, were spectacular successes just before Depression. Last week Grigsby-Grunow had been two years in bankruptcy. Its West Side plant, valued at $1,500,000, was knocked down to Zenith...