Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Mr. Frank Murphy was Governor-General of the Philippine Islands he engaged as confidential secretary one William Teahan, a Canadian citizen. Unless he has been naturalized since his return to America, Mr. Teahan is still a Canadian, and has continued on the payroll of the U. S. Government as secretary to Mr. Murphy, now Governor of Michigan...
When Bachelor Frank Murphy went to the Philippines he took along his sister to be his hostess, his newlywed brother-in-law because his sister insisted on it. As soon as Mr. Murphy gave up his Manila post, Mr. Teahan left Mr. Murphy's payroll. About to take out his final U. S. citizenship papers, he currently works...
...Waldo Frank returned from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story...
...down with . . . candor, his philosophy of life, it would turn out a ... pitiful confusion. . . . Behind the materialism, the cynicism, the indifferentism. the impertinence, the impotence of most of our popular writing exists a failure to think straight from the facts, and to feel straight. . . ." Now and then Waldo Frank sees a few rays of hope filtering down through the nearly impenetrable jungle: in the work of such men as the late liberal journalists Randolph Bourne. Herbert Croly, the late poet Hart Crane. But unfortunately for the reader, when Waldo Frank approaches the appreciative he verges on the mystical, puts...
...jail cell at Terre Haute, Waldo Frank found a microcosm of the U. S. jungle: "In the Terre Haute jail I had our world with me: the atavistic, careless and abnormal; the future, striving to be; the dolorous, dangerous present. I felt at home there...