Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...former Advocate editor and a recent President of the new-defunct Harvard Monthly will publish tomorrow the first issue of Vice Versa, a bi-monthly poetry magazine containing the work of new writers as well as poems by major contemporary figures...
...long it would be before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
...culture, if no great originality. Said Moon Trail: "Learning is living. . . . Every soul is a brick in the mosaic of the universe. If one were lost the universe would fall." In pursuit of the psychic chums of Moon Trail, and determined to make more of the loquacious defunct talk, Spiritualist Pressing last September corralled another batch of earnest mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While sympathetic listeners urged him on by exclaiming "Isn't he a dear, the sweet...