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Research should be valued for the benefits that it brings to society, he declared, saying, "In spite of the obvious material benefits that have flowed from the applications of modern science, there are those who quarrel with our universities for the vast sums spent on programs of research...
...living. Eight years later, migrated to the U. S. with his family, the studious youngster came out of the mines for good. Working twelve hours a day in a Westmoreland County, Pa. mine, he complained to the weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike. Up, up, up the Labor ladder he climbed until at 34 the boy from Lanarkshire became a master of debate who knew more about the coal industry than...
...explained in a characteristic sentence: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more." But New York newspapermen knew that the differenfce went deeper than dollars. Between stolid, self-conscious Mr. Reid and saturnine, self-satisfied Mr. Adams, for 16 years a quarrel had smoldered...
Jane and Oliver were sister and brother, and they never got on very well, even as children. The trouble began over Oliver's stamp album. After a quarrel in which Jane was clever enough to show him that he was shamefully in the wrong, Oliver made amends by giving her half-interest in his stamp collection. When he was away at school, Jane sent him stamps, among them one of an uncatalogued Antigua issue. But by that time Oliver considered stamp-collecting unmanly. Their mutual interest subsided. They grew up. Years later, when Oliver was a still-unsuccessful novelist...
Teddy and one of the waiters, a clean college fellow named Chick Kessler (Jules Garfield), meet and quarrel at first, then begin to take an interest in each other in the moonlight when he delivers a little essay about all values being relative and she proudly recites a few lines from Trees. How they then fall out over Pinkie Aaronson and later make up is a tender and amusing tale rendered with penetrating realism. In the enthusiastic first audience were Cinema Producers Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox and B. P. Schulberg. auguring that Playwright Kober and Producer-Director Connelly...