Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by Edward Mandell House
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time at least. Naturally, the publishers of the newspaper and magazine
for which he wrote understood this, but they also understood that it was usually possible to control intractable writers after they had acquired a taste for publicity, and their attitude was for the time being one of general enthusiasm and liberality tempered by such trivial attempts at control as had already been made. No sooner had he seen the first story in print than he began formulating his ideas for a second. This, he planned, would be a companion piece to that of the Turners which was typical of the native American family driven to the East Side by the inevitable workings of the social order, and would take up the problem of the foreigner immigrating to this country, and its effect upon our national life. In this second article he incorporated the story of the Levinskys as being fairly representative of the problem he wished to treat. In preparing these articles, Philip had used his eyes for the first time in such work, and he was pleased to find no harm came of it. The oculist still cautioned moderation, but otherwise dismissed him as fully recovered. CHAPTER X GLORIA DECIDES TO PROSELYTE THE RICH While Philip was establishing himself in New York, as a social worker and writer, Gloria was spending more and more of her time in settlement |
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