Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning), all of whom had heard that there is a World Court at The Hague, assembled last week at Princeton University to attend a National Collegiate World Court Conference, which had been convoked there very largely on the strength of a report that a famed Chicago shirtsleeve-barrister, Clarence Darrow, would address the gathering...
While everyone waited for Mr. Darrow to tear the Court to tatters, U. S. Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, affirmative speaker, broached the subject, in part as follows...
Then, far from the glare of such chastity, Clarence Darrow must have fumed with wrath, for the heat of his summer oratory never burned the minds of his hearers as the words of Dr. Hayes burned their hearts. Reason has had but a single throne, and her reign was brief among them. Removed from the world and its foibles the students of Southern Junior College no longer fear the comment of Browning's priest with his--"Vanity, Vanity". They are free...
Whatever the Reverend Doctor Straton may think about it, considerable moral courage is necessary for facing a negro audience with such bald statements, especially in race-crazed Detroit. Moreover, Mr. Darrow's attitude toward the negro problem could well be brought to the attention of fire-eating white supremacists and sentimental advocates of racial equality. Hysterical pity for the down trodden negro from one kind of idealist, and blind recrimination of the black race from another, are equally futile. Any constructive settlement for this problem can only come from just such cool consideration of the peculiar necessities arising from...
Dissatisfaction among negroes assumed a dangerous tinge in the negro labor convention at Chicago, which was shot through with communist sentiment. Every large industrial city is facing an increase in inter-racial unpleasantness due to overcrowding. In negro districts. In the midst of this gradually increasing tension, Mr. Darrow's speech can be interpreted as a hopeful incident in two ways: one, that his audience heard him quietly, and another, that dispassionate appraisal of the situation is still possible...