Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a citizen in the past three years has wanted to reform the reforms of the New Deal, to install standards of judicial fair play in the reform agencies. First effort to reform the reformers was the defunct Logan-Walter bill (for legal tests of administrative rulings), which might have thrown so much sand in the gears that nearly all New Deal agencies would have ground to a halt. In vetoing the bill, President Roosevelt reminded Congress that his Attorney General's committee had been working for two years on the same question, had still to report...
When Newsman Hudler turned him down two months ago, Losey bought an abandoned box factory on the outskirts of Noblesville, started the Fellowship Press. From Asheville, N. C., he imported presses on which Fascist Pelley used to turn out his defunct Silvershirt organ, Liberation. He denied that Pelley had any connection with Fellowship Press, later admitted that he would publish Pelley's treatise on "metaphysics and esoterics...
Second feature, "Dancing on a Dime," is a lot of catchy music and clever dancing centered about a defunct W.P.A. theatre project with Bob Paige and Grace McDonald, a couple of young unknowns, finding some way to finance the show when Uncle Same decides not to compete with Shubert or Minsky...
...redhaired, Maine-born Manhattan lawyer, Charles Shipman Payson (whose wife is Jock Whitney's sister Joan) started it all when he started Commentator four years ago. In November 1939, he absorbed defunct Scribner's, and about that time he hired as an assistant editor a modest, handsome young Westerner, George Eggleston, who had worked on the late College Humor, the old Life and the late Listener's Digest...
...impressive bouquet to Trustbuster Thurman Arnold. His statement that "The first concern of every democracy is the maintenance of a free market" brought 58.7% agreement (27.7% in toto, 31% in part), with utility and railmen again lagging behind. Asked to make a choice between General Johnson's defunct NRA pro-price-fixing policy, and the Arnold anti-price-fixing program, the Forum gave Arnold the edge: NRA, 22%; Arnold, 33%; "depends," 45%. More striking were its views on particular prices. A clear majority (from 63.1% to 81.8%) reasoned that lasting recovery is impossible until the building industry acts...