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Professor Ham also attacked the "dog in the manger" attitude of the modern educator towards anyone who trespassed on his field...
...Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last week, heard his pious and progressive lieutenant, Philip Murray, claim that Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has already enrolled 128,000 of the nation's 500,000 steel workers, threaten trouble unless steelmasters cease their "dog-in-the-manger attitude." C. I. O. also defied its antagonists in the great Steel campaign last week by haling Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, before the National-Labor Relations Board on charges of interfering with its employes' right to organize. Most important, C. I. O. was preparing...
...swindle. When the young couple marry they are disinherited, undergo progressive misfortunes until they end up in a Pennsylvania barn. The crooks pull a robbery for which Young goes to jail. Not until the end of the film does the dreamy Runyon touch appear. On Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens to be an ex-doctor (Raymond Walburn), delivers the young wife of a baby while the hard-boiled member of the gang (Bruce Cabot) meltingly gives up the stolen bonds to get her husband out of prison...
...before yesterday, if you please, there in this manger, there in this place, a baby girl was born. I took three witnesses with me, and at the same time we saw four other little babies looking out of iron bars begging Almighty God somehow to get them into the sunlight. They were pallid and rat-eaten, so to speak, and a further description of the synthetic maternity ward was beyond human description...
...side then except that man who walked yonder in the war valley where the poppies somehow give off a new blood color to the taproot and make it redder by virtue of the selfsame blood that gave this country birth. And this morning she is there in that manger. Why, she has been feeding all of her babies on oatmeal soup for a week, please God, with the aid of her husband while she lies there without any sort of comfort whatever...