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Someone who knows nothing at all about Chicago will still find that Algren's ability to produce visual image in every paragraph makes this an interesting work. At the same time that reader will find parts of the book completely unintelligible; he will not know who Algren is talking about, what incidents are involved, or even when it all took place. For Algren has criss-crossed his pages with symbols, quick references and innuendo about things only a resident of Chicago and reader of its newspapers could really appreciate...
...first eruption of political bad manners came in the fifth paragraph. "A new tax bill is under consideration . . ." wrote Anderson-Allen. "Whatever finally happens, about half of ... a [corporation's] contribution would be money that otherwise would go to the Government in tax." It has the familiar give-it-to-us-instead-of-to-the-Government theme which hospitals, universities and charities have been drumming since the big excess profits tax of World War II. But it was a strange argument to advance in the name of an Administration that was clamoring for more taxes...
...defensive paragraph, the H.L.U. defined itself as supporters to those men "who come closest to accepting the liberalism of the 20th Century as espoused in the New Deal and the Fair Deal...
...employment, patent infringements, the Eight-Hour Law of 1912. Five pages of Additional General Provisions dealt with contract termination, labor disputes and the loading, bracing and blocking of freight cars. A pink slip pointed out that a variation of 10% in the quantity ordered would be unacceptable, but paragraph 31 of the Provisions said such a variation was O.K. Last week the Chamber wearily decided that "the red tape has already cost the taxpayers enough." Gratis to the Air Force, "properly loaded, blocked and braced on a freight car," went the booklet...
...provisions of the Potsdam Proclamation ordering the return of Japanese prisoners to their homes will be carried out. This new paragraph, added to the final draft in August, opens the way for Japan to demand return of some 77,000 prisoners whom it claims Russia still holds...