Word: defunction
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...publisher of the Houston Chronicle, Jesse Jones long ago promised that RFC would make no newspaper investments, lest the New Deal be suspected of trying to control the U. S. Press. Month ago RFC secretly acquired a third of the Tennessean's outstanding bonds from a defunct New Orleans bank which had put them up as collateral for a Federal loan. After denying the transaction for weeks, RFC sold the bonds last week for their purchase price-$200,000-to President Paul Maclin Davis of American National Bank, which already held another $250,000 of the bonds. What made...
...forth in 1929 by Presiding Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt of New York City's Children's Court in a temperance essay which won him a $25,000 prize offered by William Randolph Hearst. Last week President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Joseph H. Choate Jr. as chief of the defunct Federal Alcohol Control Administration, appointed Franklin Hoyt to head the new Federal Alcohol Administration...
...Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...
Therefore Secretary Wallace did what the defunct Farm Board did: He announced he would not sell his 4,500,000 bale holdings until the price went up again, to 13? per lb. On the question of lending on the 1935 crop he was not yet willing to commit himself. Last week he hedged bravely...
...great dome which tarnishes above the defunct New York World's offices in Park Row no longer has any significance, and the owls whose illuminated eyes once ogled Herald Square from the old Herald Building only appear now at "alumni" dinners. But across the continent last week the hoary symbol of another great newspaper settled down on its third perch atop a brand new building. For the great bronze eagle of the 54-year-old Los Angeles Times is the mascot of a publishing property still very much alive...