Word: rhoda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capitalist is not as easy as you think. John Graham, youngest director of the banking house of Graham & Co., was seriously handicapped by having on his hands simultaneously one of the world's greater fortunes, a labor war in a coal district, and a love affair with socialistic Rhoda, who will have none of him unless he first gets rid of his money...
Pressure is brought to bear on all sides, pushing him industriously in carefully differentiated directions. He feels that to shirk the responsibilities of his wealth would be cowardly. He wants to deal justly and humanely with the men in his coal mines, with the public, with Rhoda, with his firm, most of whose members are related to him. Rhoda refuses to believe in his good faith or in the limitations of his power for good...
John, setting the Graham inferior maxillary against blackmailers' threats, is saved from ruin by Rhoda, who at last concedes that he has done his best against the dragon of his riches. Incidentally, she has found that the labor workers, her ex-associates, are not as disinterested as they look. John and Rhoda find new strength for the battle of society on the shores of the Central Park reservoir at sunrise...