Word: funking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manpower. To raise more than 1,000,000 workers and soldiers for war jobs and replacements at the front, Reich Economic Minister Walther Funk issued decrees of total mobilization. Retail tradesmen, restaurants and hotels were required to release every possible man. Theaters, bars, nightclubs and other places of amusement were closed down...
...week received official word that Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of Corregidor, is imprisoned on Formosa with twelve other U.S. generals: Major Generals Edward King Jr., George F. Moore, George M. Parker Jr., Brigadier Generals Lewis C. Beebe, Clifford Bluemel, William E. Brougher, Charles C. Drake, Arnold J. Funk, Maxon S. Lough, Allan C. McBride, Clinton A. Pierce, James R. N. Weaver...
...Section 16, who has lauded his beloved Bums ever since McPhail was a pup. Upturned Dodger noses and supercilious smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their...
...Luftwaffe's Colonel General Alexander Löhr, Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk and German Ambassador in Ankara Franz von Papen had flown to the Balkans to see what they could do. Reports came back that the Balkan nations had far too many troops concentrated on each other's frontiers. And they found other things not to their liking...
...Engineer Hugh J. Casey, Cavalryman Clinton A. Pierce, Infantryman Arnold J. Funk, Coast Artilleryman William F. Marquat, Flyer Harold H. George. For astute staff work Colonel Carl H. Seals was also made a brigadier...