Alan Scaife warned the family that wealthy capitalists like themselves were under attack. He invoked images of labor riots and class warfare. “He was concerned for the security of the country and gave us the feeling around the table that our entire future was at stake,” Scaife writes. A local newspaper editor, William Block of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, had similar recollections. He remembered Alan Scaife as overwrought during the 1940s about what he regarded as the growing threat that leftists posed to the rich. “Alan Scaife was terribly worried about inherited wealth,” he later recalled.
