Word: defunction
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...made news last week as the result of Federal proceedings against them. In Manhattan the lawyers of elderly Joseph Wright Harriman were doing their utmost before a judge and jury to keep their client from going to jail on a charge of misapplying some $2,000,000 of his defunct Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. In Chicago the lawyers of wiry, lean-lipped Arthur William Cutten were doing their utmost before a Federal referee to keep their client from being barred from the Chicago grain pit and all other U. S. contract markets...
...drive the Leas from Nashville, Tenn., where they had once been rich and powerful and where Luke Sr. fancied himself as "a maker of Governors," across the State avoiding Knoxville, where they had once owned the Journal, up the Smoky Mountains to Asheville, N. C., where they had defrauded defunct Central Bank & Trust Co. of $1,300,000, and down the other side to Raleigh and to prison...
...past, these moldy ghosts of antiquated pedagogy long since defunct but not yet laid decently to rest rise from their uneasy slumber to haunt the most conscientious and industrious of students as well as those of easier academic virtue. There is not point in compelling the student to spend hours committing to memory dozens of formulas which frequently differ from each other by only a sign which nevertheless makes all the difference in the world. Too of ten the result is that the able student with a short memory is outshone by lessor lights of seeming greater brilliancy...
Francis D. Moore '35, president of the defunct organization last night issued the following statement in reply to queries of metropolitan reporters: "It's the best thing for all of us, I worked my heart out on this sheet, but we were at the end of our rope. Our debts were increasing day by day and in spite of the issues that we have tried to capitalize on, we have been unable to meet our obligations...
...thrown New York's fashionable Lake George colony into confusion 30 summers ago by means of a large, gleaming sea serpent. He confessed that he had fabricated the serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes...