As with many PR agencies of the era, however, D-A-Y's work was not without controversy. Three weeks before the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, Dudley - on behalf of the Protective League of Property Owners - helped organize opposition to the mandatory installation of sprinklers in warehouses. Later, after World War II, it was revealed Dudley had worked as a middleman to funnel payments made by the "Reader's Digest" to Lawrence Dennis, an American writer prosecuted by the U.S. government as a pro-Nazi agitator.