Word: defunction
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Geneva then had leisure to contemplate a bust of President Arthur Henderson of the nearly defunct Disarmament Conference presented last week by a Hungarian newspaper which was almost alone in printing the full text of the speech which poor, neglected "Uncle Arthur" seized this occasion to make. Another complete fiasco was the speech of assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss' successor, dry, circumloquacious Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. For almost an hour he enunciated such involved platitudes as "this is no time for retrospective discussion as to whether Austria was bound to become what she now is, but I must urge that...
Married, Stephen Henry Horgan, 80, inventor of the halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...
Married. Jane Marion Swope, 21, daughter of Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time executive editor of the defunct New York World; and Robert Lee Brandt, 22, cf Manhattan, employe of the NRA admnistrative staff; in Ossining...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, who lost his job year ago in a quarrel with Walter C. Teagle over supporting the Administration's oil policy. To the new Communications Commission he named Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres...
...coast to coast. In 1913 Hearst's American Weekly serialized The Story of My Life, by Evelyn Thaw. In 1914 it appeared as a paper-covered book. In 1926 Hearst's King Features syndicated Evelyn Nesbit's Own Story. A year later Bernarr Macfadden's defunct New York Evening Graphic ran a series about her. Last year King Features thought it was about time again to tell People Who Think the whole story...