Word: funking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ALBERT EINSTEIN-Funk & Wagnalls...
This is the tale of a girl, a voice and some steak with mushrooms. It may sound like a weird combination, but some time ago this writer was taking a leave of absence in Boston, and happened to wander into the Raymor, where Larry Funk's band was playing. Someone was starting to sing "I Cried For You", but no one paid any attention until about three measures had passed. But those three measures and everything that came there-after made up some of the best jazz singing that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases...
Chubby, jolly Dr. Funk, long a Nazi Party member, and once head of the Third Reich's Press Department, will keep his Economics Ministry which he took from Dr. Schacht in 1937. Specifically charged with maintaining the stability of wages and prices, he will now have the added and important job of opening up and enlarging, in Herr Hitler's words, "the capital market for private financial needs...
...credited with either the genius or the stubbornness of Dr. Schacht, Dr. Funk is not expected long to resist the demands of those Nazi radicals who have wanted to print bank notes against such newly created wealth as public buildings, roads. They have professed to be less interested in how much gold a ten-mark note represents than how much bread it will buy. As if in expectation of inflation, values on the German stockmarket rose in terms of marks, while German bonds elsewhere sank lower...
Richer or poorer, Dr. Funk's country was last week certainly getting hungrier. Butter, cream, other fats, some meats are rationed in Germany. Eggs, common vegetables often disappear from market. Non-nutritive but ingenious excuses are left in their place by the Propaganda Ministry. A recent onion shortage was blamed on an "onion corner" by "international Jewry." Last week Germany was being given excuses instead of coffee...