Word: defunction
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...blame on anyone. No one knew better than Judge Keidan that the number of indisputable facts adduced by his investigation was pitifully small. His jurisdiction was purely State; the U. S. Treasury, prowling around Detroit on its own secret investigation, refused to open the books of the two big defunct banks and forbade its overworked officials to bother with testifying. What Judge Keidan received were rattling salvos of highly- personalized undocumented charge and countercharge. The whole story, the true story was yet to be told...
...Boston last week, result of a long U. S. Government investigation, a Federal grand jury indicted President Daniel C. Mulloney of defunct Federal National Bank, three presidents of affiliated banks and the treasurer of still another for looting their institutions of a total estimated at $2,000,000. Federal National and eight affiliated banks, with total deposits of $60,000,000, crashed in the line-squall of banking failures that tore through New England late...
...illustrated weekly called Tid-Bits was published in New York City in 1884, changed its name to Time in 1885, was merged with Munsey's Feb. 22, 1890. TIME, founded 1923, has no connection with defunct, cupid-covered Time...
Grimly did many a conservative banker listen to this advice, remembering the last time, in 1929, when a "new era" was preached, remembering defunct bankers who lent not wisely but too well to "reconstruct" their customers...
...grounds that he was to serve the New Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains of the group seemed to be a fifth figure, Board Chairman Virgil Vercingetorix McNitt of McNaught (McNitt) newspaper syndicate, onetime publisher of defunct McNaught's Magazine (like Plain Talk). But Mr. McNitt has been headed toward retirement lately, so last week when Messrs. Astor, Harriman & Moley announced further details about their weekly, observers concluded that if it did nothing else the subsidy would afford employment to a few unoccupied literati...