Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knoxville, Tenn., counsel for the defense-John Randolph Neal of Dayton, chief; associates Clarence Darrow and Bainbridge Colby-formulated plans Associate Counsels Dudley Field Malone and Charles H. Strong (Secretary of the N. Y. City Bar Association, appointed as "observer" by the Unitarian Laymen's League) were absent. The defense made known that it would seek not only to test the exact legal issues of the case-i. e., the constitutionality of the anti-Evolution law-but also public education in science through the testimony of eleven eminent scientists. One of this eleven-Dr. Henry Fairfieldl Osborn...
...abstract academic freedom. This group wanted Lawyer Charles E. Hughes to lend distinction to the case. Others were for "jazzing" the case, splashing it in even larger type through 'the headlines of newspapers, thoroughly airing and "teaching the people" the theory of evolution. These men wanted Lawyers Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone for popular appeal, Lawyer Bainbridge Colby for a modicum of distinction. Hardly consulting the defendant himself, the latter group won, after mollifying Lawyer Malone with assurances that he would get as much publicity out of the trial as any one, that his Irish Catholicism...
...Lawyers Darrow, Malone and Colby called at the Museum of Natural History to confer with Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn and to be shown by him the complete paleontological evidence of Evolution. With this evidence, the barristers declared themselves "satisfied...
...time has come for a show-down. H. G. Wells has lent his name to the cause, while Clarence Darrow has come forth as counsel. The press is filled with the story and the whole country is agog. To add fuel to the fire, Bryan will pour forth his oily words...
...Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton was intoxicated with "boom" elixir like a small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming for the defense-suave Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, cynical Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Perhaps England's H. G. Wells would send a message. Curious hundreds would be sure to jostle for a glimpse of the mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism...