Word: defunction
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Onetime Governor Jack Walton of Oklahoma and onetime Police Commissioner Richard Edward Enright of New York City were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury at Oklahoma City on charges of using the mails to defraud. Their promotion: Universal Oil & Gas Co., now defunct...
...Steuer, good Tammany man, father of a municipal judge. As a special investigator of the notorious Bank of United States failure, Mr. Steuer saw to it that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel demanded that he be subpoenaed to defend himself against "baseless statements designed to reflect upon me." The bank's officers went to court to get Lawyer Steuer disqualified as their inquisitor...
Creditors of defunct Prince & Whitely last week received 25? on $1 in cash, also certificates in a corporation which hopes to pay the remaining 75?by gradual liquidation of remaining assets...
...expect from his own creditor. He, I found, is very hardhearted. Let America not be so.''* Gold and Gates McGarrah. Also in Manhattan last week was famed Gates W. McGarrah, president of the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) at Basle, Switzerland, which has replaced the defunct office for reparation payments in Berlin (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.). Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned as board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to go abroad and try to make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman...
...deserted college to become janitor for a socialistic Utopia called Helicon Hall which had just been founded in New Jersey by Upton Sinclair, radical novelist. Poor, Sinclair Lewis lived by writing children's verse and squib jokes for magazines until he obtained an assistant editorship on the now defunct monthly Transatlantic Tales. He left that position to seek another in the building of the Panama Canal but, failing that, returned obscurely to Yale for his degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere. But in streetcars and on commuting trains he appeased something that was gnawing...