Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...station. The train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow" law, which forbids Negroes to use railroad accommodations set apart for whites. Now, as everyone knows, Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, shrewd lawyers, are friends of all races; in fact, in 1925, they defended the source of all races at the famed "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. Mr. Darrow has saved the lives of two young Jews, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold; Mr. Hays has defended the civil...
...Meanwhile, last week in Manhattan, Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler, president of Columbia University, suggested that the U. S. move its capital to Westerville, Ohio, the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. Then Clarence Darrow, dexterous Chicago criminal lawyer, told Manhattanites that it was a "civic duty to violate the Prohibition...
...Clarence Darrow, criminal lawyer: "'I've hardly read a line about it,' said I last week about the Hall-Mills murder case, which I described as dull...
...Clarence Darrow: "In Manhattan, I urged violation of the Volstead Act. I recommended the example of early Christians, who 'bootlegged' Christianity into the Roman Empire...
...Darrow had intended coming to Harvard after filling his engagements in Boston; now that his Boston engagements have been postponed, however, the noted criminal lawyer will not come East until the spring...