Word: defunction
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...extreme Left of the organized phalanx is held by the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") whose unclassified membership slugged and dynamited its way to notoriety before the War but is now practically defunct with a claimed strength of 68,000. A little closer to the centre the line is occupied by the Trade Union Unity League, commanded by William Zebulon Foster, No. 1 U. S. Communist. Liveliest unit in this organization is the National Miners Union which was active in the coal fields of the Pittsburgh area last spring (TIME, July 6). The T. U. U. L. claims...
...years younger than Gerard, Herbert went to Harvard, returned to his hometown, St. Louis, to work for the Post-Dispatch. The family, which still owns one of the biggest shoe stores in town, objected to his newspaper career, were finally reconciled when he became executive editor of the now defunct New York World...
...cent of their $42,000,000 total deposits, more later. Maestro Gibson's once precarious, now potent Manufacturers Trust Co., backed with $20,000,000 provided by itself and the city's other big banks and banking firms, was going to liquidate the seven defunct banks...
Banker Gibson and Manufacturers Trust will make no money directly out of the liquidations. But in return for their arduous public service they will be well-paid in goodwill. Manufacturers, wishing to expand, will be in a position to take for its own such of the defunct flock as it wishes. A reason that Manufacturers is in a position to clean up so much scattered wreckage is that it has 52 widely scattered branches. As the wreckage is cleared, as the broken banks' depositors happily get back much of their $42,000,000, Manufacturers' branch managers will...
...must face other trials. There are still the Federal and State matters of the Holston-Union National Bank in Knoxville. And there is still to be a trial in connection with the defunct Liberty Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville, whose president shot himself two weeks after it closed. But last week's sentence marked the complete deflation of a great southern hero, one who had attempted to build an empire on the pillars of politics, finance and the Press, who was once the youngest U. S. Senator (32), who was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his courageous actions...