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...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...
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...
...steamy field under a sweltering sun, Chuck Cheshire of University of California at Los Angeles: 1) caught a shovel pass and ran 43 yards to a touchdown; 2) tossed a pass to Funk for another; 3) ran 81 yards for a third through the entire Oregon team. The U. C. L. A. rooting section, which had spent the half-time making card-formation pictures of a bear eating a duck, went home feeling sure that nothing in the rest of their schedule will keep the team out of the Rose Bowl if they can beat California this week...
...judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also...