Word: defunction
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...number of horses, camels and zebras." She paid the advance expenses, undertook the task of getting an all-Texas cast together in Chicago. With the little Houston Civic Opera as a nucleus, she organized the Texas Grand Opera Association, got Delia Samoiloff, who once appeared with the defunct Chicago Opera, as Ai'da, Soprano Dreda Aves of Manhattan's Hippodrome Company as Amneris. Amateur Texans formed the chorus. Chicagoans in the stadium recognized the stage band and orchestra as their own. Texans applauded Mrs. Graham's effort "to show Chicago and the rest of the world that...
Father Coughlin hurled charge after charge of corruption, deceit and deliberate falsifying of books at the officials of the defunct banks. Furthermore, he fumed, it was doubtful if three of them would escape Federal indictment-Banker-Publisher Stair, former Chairman Wilson W. Mills of First National ("a broken-down lawyer who swapped his profession for the fleshpots of Egypt") and Peter J. Monaghan, a director of Detroit Bankers and its attorney. Special U. S. Assistant Attorney General Pratt, who is also probing the Detroit situation, slyly observed: "Father Coughlin must know more about it than...
...Pennsylvania and Santa Fe with T. A. T.. New York Central with American Airways), but Boston & Maine is the first to establish air service of its own. The road contracted with an outside company newly formed by Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam who were executives in defunct Ludington Lines (New York-Philadelphia-Washington), to operate the airline. The railroad pockets all revenue, pays the operators a flat sum per mile...
...Hitler Youth Boys. When Nazis suppressed the German Boy Scouts last June, B.P. exclaimed: "I am very glad! The German Boy Scouts were not attached to us. They were military. We are unmilitary and unpolitical-just Boy Scouts and nothing more!" Last week Lord Baden-Powell, referring to the defunct World Monetary & Economic Conference, cried from his conqueror's tent: "Old men have failed in all their recent conferences.† Now youth must show them the way!'' Next day 10,000 Hungarian Boy Scouts and their 20,000 Scout guests showed the way to hold a Jamboree...
...grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although he is Canadian-born, of Scotch descent). He knows sensational newspapers because for 30 years they have been his opposition (in the form of Hearst's Times, Macfadden's defunct Daily). At 17 "Bing" Bingay started as an office boy on the Scripps-founded Detroit News. He left as managing editor four years ago, held a $15,000-a-year advertising job for a year, then joined the old, respected Free Press (whose first editorial campaign...