Word: defunction
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...minor reason for his victory was that he shrewdly took with him to Washington the publicity-wise ex-secretary of the War Industries Board, Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime executive editor of the defunct New York World. At headquarters in Washington's swank Hotel Carlton...
...case was not the money. His father, one of the seven Fisher Body Brothers, has enough of that. Less than seven years ago young Mr. Fisher was a student at Georgetown University. He emerged to become a vice president of one of Detroit's two great arid now defunct banking groups. He emerged from Detroit's banking fiasco with the personal commendation of Jesse Jones tangibly as well as verbally expressed. He was made RFC's representative in Michigan. His elevation to the RFC board, to succeed the late Senator John J. Elaine of Wisconsin...
Reason for the party was revival of defunct St. Nicholas which, from a peak circulation of 88,000 in 1922, had tumbled through a succession of ownerships to obscurity. Its circulation fell below 40,000. Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas...
Brooklyn-born, son of the founder of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Joseph Knapp was an early partner of the late Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (see p. 59) in publishing the defunct New York Recorder. One of the first to tinker with multiple color printing, he founded American Lithographic Co. Thirty years ago he first tried the Sunday supplement idea with a company called Associated Sunday Magazines, but it failed miserably for various reasons when the War kited the cost of newsprint...
...obvious note is, of course, an unadorned "God!" The next most obvious one is: "Mr. O'Connor was formerly president of the defunct Harvard Journal." I just want to make it easy...