Word: defunction
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...dollar, and have since received but twenty cents more. In Chicago the government proceeds with its case against Samuel Insull, accused of a stock manipulation that cost the public $100,000,000. In New York a country grand jury has indicted the second group of officials of defunct title mortgage companies within a single month...
...that a fourth publication appear occasionally at Harvard to rear its stalwart knob of a head and then to subside into nothingness and the realm of forgotten dailies. Such was the destined fate of the Critic, it was said, when that publication was relegated last spring to what the defunct Liberal was pleased to call its whited sepulchre.--under the anathema "they did not publish," and it is true that the Critic has again made up its mind to walk the face of the early...
Nothing more was done on the program until after the resignation of Edward S. Emery '87, assistant to Endicott, whose office was defunct in fact if not in name. The way was then clear for the completion of the reorganization...
From the war until last year the Memorial Society was a defunct organization which had died from lack of interest on the part of undergraduates, but which prior to its end had performed a real service at Harvard. Its work consisted of placing the memorial plaques on the doors of all the rooms in the halls in the Yard which were over one hundred years old, listing on those plates the occupants of the rooms for the first hundred or more years of their existence. Meetings and dinners went to make the club a pleasant one in which...
...Yorkers were suddenly reminded one day last week that they once (1911-17) had a U. S. Senator named James A. O'Gorman. The kindly, white-bearded old gentleman spent a quarter hour before a grand jury, trying to stall off an indictment of the executive committee of defunct New York Title & Mortgage Co. for allegedly issuing false and deceptive statements in connection with the sale of guaranteed mortgages. Now 74, a trustee of New York University, Mr. O'Gorman emerged from the grand jury chamber with tears in his eyes. A little later...