Word: funk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...
While he was busy slashing overhead in Spur's spacious Madison Avenue offices (he began by making the magazine a monthly), Publisher Tichenor was telephoned by a friend that Outlook & Independent, which suspended publication in April, was that day to be auctioned by a bankruptcy referee. Funk & Wagnalls were bidding $2,000 for it, planning only to use its subscription list for the Literary Digest. A faithful admirer of the late Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote for Outlook in its heyday, Publisher Tichenor bustled downtown to court, determined to see old Outlook kept alive. He sent the bidding skyward...
...with his brother Henry Wallace ("Wally"). He was intercollegiate light-heavyweight wrestling champion. Today his weight is exactly the same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...
...Funk & Wagnalls...
Died. U. S. Representative David Joseph O'Connell, 62, of the 9th New York Congressional District (1919-21 and since 1923), author of the bill which sent Gold Star Mothers to France, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sales manager of Funk & Wagnalls Co., onetime president of the Booksellers' League of New York; of a heart attack while seated in a bootblack chair; in Manhattan...