Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene seems to Waldo Frank less like a metropolitan park than a jungle. Nevertheless he comports himself with oratorical earnestness, harangues the jungly prowlers as if they were gaping democrats. His latest book, a collection of speeches and articles covering the last ten years, ranges from the autobiographical to the abstract, from the satiric to the scriptural. Readers found the scriptural passages skippable but the satiric often well-seasoned, salty...
...politician but a shrewd and imposing merchant is 46-year-old Aaron Frank. Oregon's richest sportsman, he is chairman for the Pacific Northwest of the Amateur Athletic Union's executive committee, is said to plan a great athletic pavilion as his monument in Portland. Mainspring in the Meier & Frank business since Uncle Julius moved to the State House in 1930, Aaron Frank has watched his store's sales shrink from $18,510,061 in the fiscal year of 1928 to $11,276,077 in 1934 and swell again to $16,555,952 in 1936. When Aaron...
...Other Meier & Frank assets (two small hotels, a freight terminal, securities, a garage, etc.), valued at $1,678,883, are for descendants...
...AMERICAN JUNGLE-Waldo Frank-Farrar & Rinekart...
...refuses to mend its manners, morals and mores it will not be Waldo Frank's fault. For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole. Disregarded by the majority of Americans as a left-wing liberal with a boringly Messianic style, Waldo Frank at 47 is at least as much a part of the U. S. scene as the Hyde Park orators are of London's. Unlike most liberals he suffered a broken crown for his beliefs (in 1932 when he led a relief...