Word: funston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr. learned baseball on San Francisco's windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released...
...Filipinos at that time, and hence offering no jobs in the Island Government to brown men, Manuel Quezon went into the bush for a while as a major on Aguinaldo's staff. It took two years, many tons of rifle ammunition and the caginess of General Frederick Funston to capture and subdue Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901. As early as 1903, his ex-aide, Quezon, was working hand-in-glove with the conquering Yanquis as prosecutor for Tabayas and Mindoro Provinces. He has been drawing a government paycheck ever since...
When War came in 1917 William Hushka, 22-year-old Lithuanian, sold his St. Louis butcher shop, gave the proceeds to his wife, joined the Army. He was sent to Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital...
...against Toronto, as he did against the westerners, with the possible exception of McGregor, who is suffering from a cold. HARVARD TORONTO Baldwin, l.w. r.w., Cunningham Wood, c. c., Brant Cunningham, r.w. l.w., Murray Palmer, l.d. r.d., Dewar McGregor or Martin, r.d. l.d., Smillie de Give, g. g., Funston...
Until General Frederick Funston captured the insurrectionary chief 30 years ago in the steamy jungles of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo was a bloody name with which to frighten U. S. children after dark. Ever since his parole, Aguinaldo has been one of the sturdiest native supporters of U. S. rule. His son and General Funston's were friendly classmates at West Point four years ago. Aguinaldo would have nothing to do with the local movement for immediate Philippine independence...