Word: funston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...
Last October Funston, an ex-radiator manufacturing and WPB executive, took over the 123-year-old college's presidency. His first businesslike step: to try to take academic control from Trinity's faculty committees. Shepard, implicitly questioning Funston's educational know-how, fought the move as "autocratic." When Funston got the chance to force his outspoken star to resign, he took...
Shepard's many friends among Trinity alumni promptly bombarded Funston with protest telegrams and letters. But Trinity's executive committee, all conservative Hartford businessmen, backed up the president. They have long distrusted Shepard's "radical" notions about banks, utilities and big business...
Well, Hardly Ever. In Camp Funston, Kans., chosen the "perfect replacement" by G.I.s was Sioux Indian Pvt. John Nevermissashot...
...aide to his father, who was military observer to Japan in 1905, he watched the Russo-Japanese War. At Mudken he saw the Japanese charge a Russian-held hill six times, joined them on the seventh and successful charge. In 1914 he was with Major General Frederick Funston at Veracruz. Disguised as a Mexican bum, he reconnoitered behind Mexican lines, found three locomotives for his gen eral. He remembers this escapade especially because of a young official of the Ger man Embassy who helped him : Franz von Papen...