The Prodigal Parents by Sinclair Lewis

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While Fred, with Hazel on the arm of his chair, was reading the first copy of Protest & Progress, Sara pretended to be lost in the Daily Worker, and over it she watched them with what she hoped was cynical amusement.

On the 'P. & P.' cover, in a technique familiar to Fred from the high-school papers his children had once brought home, was a caricature labelled 'A Dictator of the Auto Industry', depicting a grossly fat man drinking champagne from a magnum. That was fairly easy for Hazel to understand, but she balked at two other caricatures, 'Workers Unite!' and 'The Newest Deal'. In the first, 'Labour' was revealed as an agonized dwarf lashed by a diabolic monster named 'Capital', but in the second Labour was a young and singing giant who laughed at a wizened Capital held in the palm of his brawny hand: a hand worthy of a structural steel worker or even of Litvinoff.

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