Word: funk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S mention of attempt of Berkshire Eagle to ascertain vote of New Ashford 18 hours before opening of polls by means of straw ballot distributed to all 48 registered voters of the village (TIME, Oct. 9), should like to ask Literary Digest's Funk what he does for red face...
...vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor, had him get the Digest's Publisher Wilfred J. Funk on the telephone, offer to bet him $10,000 against $5,000 that the News's straw vote was more accurate for New York State than the Digest's poll...
...that sounds like easy money!" said Mr. Funk. "Let me talk it over with some of the boys in the office." After talking it over, Mr. Funk was less enthusiastic. The Digest figures Captain Patterson had challenged did not include New York City, which was yet to be accounted for in the magazine's poll...
Though he still "didn't know of an easier way to make $10,000," if the wager were on the final figures of Digest and News, Mr. Funk felt that "as a matter of policy it would be impossible for the Literary Digest to bet on its' own poll. . . . The magazine takes no sides . . . plays no favorites...
From Frankfurt a special plane escorted by German air-force fighters carried Schmeling to Berlin where 500 amateur boxers in blue tights waited as a guard of honor with the Realmleader's personal adjutant, Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Brückner. State Secretary Walther Funk of the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rushed broad-beamed Max Schmeling off to dine with small, club-footed Paul Joseph Goebbels. "I am delighted with the Hindenburg," said Herr Schmeling. "I hope my fight with Braddock won't be as hard as the one with Louis...