Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
...trial before a Boston jury for selling a copy of "An American Tragedy" to a policeman, the nation's "bad boys" gathered for a Ford Hall Forum banquet to sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
That the present penal system is not reducing crime is a thought often expressed. Clarance Darrow in recent years has achieved considerable celebrity for his advocacy of the treatment of the individual criminal as a cure for the cause of crime. Despite the unfortunate angles of many of his cases and the adverse public opinion regarding them, it would seem that some such treatment is necessary to get at the root of the trouble. In seeking for the practical details to work out this idea the Institute offers excellent hope for some plan for improvement of present conditions...
Since then many voices have been raised against the Darwin theory, many an evangelist has shouted maledictions against the memory and followers of the Great Evolutionist. In the U. S., as everyone knows, the peak of the Darwin controversy was the famed Dayton, Tenn., debate between Attorney Clarence Darrow and the late great William Jennings Bryan (TIME, July...
Docket number 108 is the Taney Club (Clyne, Howes) versus the Darrow Club (Kraus, Elzholz). The meeting will be at the Crest Court Inn with George Rountree, Jr. 3L as chief justice...