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...their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover's election. Arthur Mitchell had switched parties by 1932. Campaigning against Representative De Priest on the platform that the New Deal was a boon to blacks and whites alike, he declared: "I would work harder for my people than any other Congressman, but I would not keep thinking about the fact that I was colored." Blacks and whites in his neighborhood liked this conciliatory line, gave him a 3,000 majority on election...
...Confessions, many a plain reader will feel that Powys has dodged the point. His text is excellent: "If all the persons who wrote autobiographies would dare to put down the things that in their life have actually caused them their most intense misery, it would be a much greater boon than all these testy justifications of public actions." But, like many a sermon, Author Powys' is more exhibitionistic than instructive, and it goes on much too long...
...desire that the priceless boon of sleep and rest be conferred as quickly as possible on as many as possible, and that the sick in particular shall be freed from the torment of the motor horn at night. . . . The caution which a motorist instinctively displays when he no longer has recourse to his hooter is a contribution to the measure we are taking to increase public safety...
...Large black pills!" snorted counsel for the Premier. "A boon to the medical profession! This man was committing abortion on you - was that the idea...
...kill him, thus sending his soul into the Invisible. In the After Life, Bill meets his old A. E. F. top sergeant, who accompanies him back to watch his own funeral. Bill is properly impressed with the obsequies, but it soon becomes evident that his death is not the boon to his family he had hoped. His $50,000 insurance does not prevent Mrs. Trent's being suspected of murder, does not help his daughter out of an extra-marital scrape. But ghostly Bill keeps wandering around and praying, finally sets things to rights...