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Lenin's successors paid adulation to their defunct leader by renaming the city Leningrad. Western editors didn't take much notice. The Soviets, by transferring the capital to Moscow and by their economic policies towards foreign trade, have depressed Leningrad, nee St. Petersburg, from a population of 1,250,000 to 400,000. Leningrad, ruined, shrunken, wizened, is an appropriate memorial to the man whose political and economic philosophies plunged Russia into the greatest social experiment of modern times...
Albert, King of Belgium: "One Harold Kellock, writing in The Freeman, now defunct, described a character appearing in a current Manhattan theatrical production (Beggar on Horseback) as follows: 'He is a Herculean person, like Albert of Belgium, though, of course, he looks more intelligent...
...North German merchant, was born in 1875. Because of the wishes of his family, he spent a short time in the life insurance business, writing secretly at night. But he soon went to Italy for a year. On returning he became the editor of Sim-plicissimus (funny paper, now defunct). Buddenbrooks first appeared in 1901, when Mann was 26 years old. He now lives at Munich, is German correspondent for The Dial...
Harry Ford Sinclair is one of the largest oil operators in the world with wealth estimated in hundreds of millions. He was one of the chief backers of the now defunct Federal League, which tried to buck organized baseball. He owns the Rancocas racing stables, to which Zev, victor over Papyrus, belongs. Now he is in Europe "indefinitely...
Lord Alfred published in a pamphlet an article entitled: The Murder of Lord Kitchener and the Truth About the Battle of Jutland and the Jews. An excerpt from this document reads: "I made a definite charge against Winston Churchill in Plain English, a newspaper now defunct. I stated that a large sum of money was given him by the late Sir Ernest Cassel after he had issued what is admittedly a false report of the Battle of Jutland...