Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...range with those on Slavery, or the National Bank, and in this case to serve as an emetic and tonic. At last the worm, which has been turning for a long time, has accomplished the convolution. The feeling is evident in print, in the new book written by Darrow, and in the belliger out attitude of nearly all the important papers and magazines. The Civil Liberty unions have been quietly accomplishing much in the courts, but the sore will probably come to a head in the person of Governor Smith...
...such demonstrations were averted. The Greco-Carillo defense committee enlisted the services of Lawyer Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Last week, in the tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers...
...such demonstrations were averted. The Greco-Carillo defense committee enlisted the services of Lawyer Clarence Darrow of Chicago. Last week, in the tawdry Bronx courtroom, Lawyer Darrow, one of the most dangerous lions of the U. S. bar, exercised the expressive seams in his face, hunched his expressively hulking shoulders, intoned his expressive drawl, until he convinced 12 jurors who had no interest in the political passions of "little Italy" that Italian political passions were the motives underlying the prosecution; that the prosecution's case rested solely upon identification of a rear-view of one of the alleged murderers...
Said Lawyer Clarence Darrow: "I believe it is the next step . . . . The main thing to be taken into consideration by such a board of correction suggested by Governor Smith would be: can the defendant be saved, be returned to society...
...punishment has clouded the issues involved, A. K. Reading, LL.B. '12, District Attorney of Massachusetts, stated to a CRIMSON reporter last night that he was personally convinced of the justice of the supreme penalty. "In my opinion," added Reading, "the question is not debateable, but I shall meet Clarence Darrow in Symphony Hall in an effort to clear the public mind of misconceptions on this important subject...