Word: defunction
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...duce evidence and extract admissions, showing that prior to statement dates various banks of the group arranged to make deposits with one another so as to wipe out "bills payable" for a few days-window dressing to prevent depositors from catching fright. Meantime other officers of the defunct banking group, including Ernest Kanzler, Edsel Ford's brother-in-law, sat squirming in their chairs. None of Detroit's industrial elite under subpoena felt any easier as two agents of the Department of Justice stood in the shadows and noted down any admissions which could be used...
...shades of a happier, more opulent day hover over the trial of Ervin F. Brown, a member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made...
...table was FACA's director, Joseph Hodges Choate Jr., 57, of Manhattan. His companions: Edward G. Lowry, special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and Harris Willingham of the Department of Agriculture. Not present were: William Allen Tarver, chief counsel of the Department of Justice's defunct Prohibition unit, and Willard L. Thorp, director of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. These five were the officers of FACA's control committee...
...selected to control Treasury news was Herbert E. Gaston, onetime night editor of the defunct New York World, who helped found the liberal Federated Press service as a medium for labor news. Even the fact that an experienced and liberal minded confrere had been given the job was not enough to make the correspondents believe Mr. Morgenthau's disavowal of censorship. Always quick to resent such tactics the correspondents promptly expressed their feelings in a letter to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs: "We . . . formally protest against the rigid restrictions imposed by Mr. Morgenthau. . . . The Secretary's order includes...
...evaluate critically the principles of recovery in the light of a changing economic situation. It will attempt to assay the trend of events, and to discuss some of the old economic principals in relation to the new social problems; whether the law of supply and demand is defunct; the extent to which prices increased by edict may result in increased purchasing power and a return to prosperity; and the feasibility of national planning...