Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PROHIBITION MANIA-Clarence Darrow & Victor S. Yarros-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Using the much-heralded dry arguments of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale (advanced in Prohibition at its Worst) as a tackling dummy, Authors Yarros (Chicago journalist) & Darrow (famed Chicago lawyer) endeavor to prove that the 18th amendment should be considered an outmoded though undeniably humorous fantasy. Practically all of Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book...
With no reserve and in his characteristic frank manner, Dr. Straton decried Clarence Darrow, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Bertrand Russell, and others as having aided in not only the tendency but in an institution with financial backing for undermining the social structure of the country...
...United States a Jefferson Davis, intimating that Jefferson, the elected President of a seceding organization, should be placed in the same group with the man who murdered his friend and a man who would trade his country for money. In your issue of May 30, you quote Clarence Darrow, a Chicago lawyer, as saying before a Negro organization in attempting to answer the question as to why there are so many different colors among Negroes-"It must be that so many white women have raped colored...
TIME meant no offense. The item in question was a report of a speech which Clarence Darrow delivered to Philadelphia Negroes...
Lawyer Clarence Darrow, whose Lake Placid address partook of the fervor of a national legend, often addresses Negroes, with a fervor entirely his own. Many a member of the John Brown pilgrimage went to hear Mr. Darrow, in Philadelphia, make his usual speech about the "race" people. In this speech Mr. Darrow says...