Word: defunction
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...vessel, ungainly but powerful, with daubs of red on her lunging bows and red marks here and there on her some-what disorderly running gear. She was the New Masses, a workers' monthly floated (TIME, Dec. 21) to replace the Masses and Liberator by the friends of those defunct organs, with money from the American Fund for Public Service (Charles Garland fund...
Historians smiled to recall that, setting aside the repudiated debts of the defunct Southern Confederacy, there was even a time when King Louis XVI of France was vexed by the failure of the U.S. Government to liquidate its debt to his realm...
...retroactive and confiscatory," as the U.S. at first protested that they were. It now remains to be seen whether U.S. property owners in Mexico will be leniently or harshly treated within the limit of the existing statutes. Upon such developments will depend the possible revamping of an issue technically defunct...
When informed of this fact, S. D. Richards '27, Business Manager of the now defunct paper, expressed no surprise. "We have all expected this for a long time", he said. "But after all the joke is not on us. We have had free use of the building for 17 years. What more could...
...Callers on President Coolidge included: John Hays Hammond, Chairman of the now defunct U. S. Coal Commission, who said that the country would go through the winter without a serious coal shortage and that New England would learn to use cheaper substitutes for hard coal; J. Hamilton Lewis, former "dude" Senator from Illinois, who found the President not at home, and told reporters that the fight for the Republican nomination in 1928 would be between Messrs. Hoover and Dawes; Senator Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who called by invitation to discuss the funding of the Italian Debt...