Word: funk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture-laden, 28-page, magazine-like supplement distributed in 15 cities. It is dissociated from other Field publications, except that Chicago's Sun is a customer. Parade is unusual in two respects: 1) Editor Ross Art Lasley and his top associates (Boyd Brodhead and Harold H. Funk) have had no other newspaper or magazine experience; 2) the gravure-printed supplement gets an extreme degree of editing by its readers...
Money. Many Germans worry about inflation. Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk recently tried to reassure an assembly of big shots at the Reichsbank: Never mind the rising tide of bank notes; the money situation is under control. But many people are buying whatever fixed values they can put their hands on (favorite investment: rare stamps, because they can be easily hidden and transported...
...psychoanalyst, quips: "I ought to get my F (for Freud) any day now." The visits have helped dispel the dark self-doubts from which the bright gadgets offered escape. They have given him, among other things, the courage to write alone. But he still has his moments of funk. He still spends an opening night in the men's room. He still dramatizes everything: he proudly arrived at the Kaufmans' with affidavits from three dentists, stating that they had collectively worked on him for 15 straight hours...
...life time Monday by being the little man who wasn't there when called to lead the entire company back from drill. The episode developed into a triple play. Keith Bond was the next guy called, but his voice cracked and he gave way to the astute George Funk, who is definitely the executive type...
...three times before, go through the motions of presenting and accepting the annual report. He will have been authorized to do so by proxies of the bank's 17 directors, 13 of whom are controlled by the Axis powers, and one of whom is Walther Funk himself (Reich Minister of Economics...