Word: funks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of these denunciations, and with the erubescent qualities of certain tabloids in mind, we hope that Funk and Wagnalls have at last arrived at the proper analysis of Crimson when they say: "To make or become crimson, redden, blush." We are confident, however, of the accuracy of the following definition, which a prominent semanticist has assured us will fit any Harvard publication, "deep red tinged with blue." --The Radcliffe News...
Vague though the talk of "hot money" control was last week, brokers at home and abroad gave it the darkest interpretation. In London, where "hot money" is called "funk money" and any interference with international trading is deplored, a thoughtful broker declared: "It appears that Mr. Roosevelt once more is striving to achieve a reputable objective without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign...
...Publisher Funk's remedy for red face...
...accurately foretold the major electoral results of, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932. This time something had gone horribly wrong. Pleased and proud were its readers when out of its travail came the Digest with a cheerful, sporting handling of its own and other poll scores. Good-humored Editor Wilfred J. Funk, who himself had wagered no money on the election, featured on his magazine's first page a small facsimile Digest cover encircling the legend, "IS OUR FACE RED!" Beneath this he printed a cartoon by Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun in which a battered GOPolitician clutches a horsewhip...
Fact was that to the Digest's aging Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy, mail-order methods have always spelled success. This year, Editor Funk recommended that more money be spent to check and supplement the 1932 lists, was overruled. Only ten million ballots were mailed this year, half as many as in 1932. And anyone would guess that more Landon than Roosevelt voters were to be found at their 1932 addresses...