Word: darrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boylston Prizes for public speaking were awarded last night after 10 finalists in the competition recited selections ranging from Clearence Darrow's defense of Loeb and Leopold, to Robert Brownings's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin...
Inevitable Liars. Experienced lawyers have arcane theories about choosing and challenging a juror. Clarence Darrow believed that Negroes, Jews, Irish and Mediterranean peoples make sympathetic jurors for the defense.* He warned against choosing Prohibitionists, Northern Europeans, Presbyterians and Baptists, but suggested dropping all guidelines in the case of the man who laughs. "A juror who laughs hates to find anyone guilty," he said. Pierre Howard, an Atlanta defense attorney, has kept a card file on jurors for 29 years. Butchers and barbers, he says, make bloodthirsty jurors. In a robbery case, he would challenge a filling-station attendant...
...efforts are not based on any claim that we deserve to see Cuba more than others. We are interested in going and believe that such interest alone should validate our passports. Peter H. Darrow...
...Darrow pointed out that State Department support for this trip would "render unnecessary" the plans of leftist students who island to duty the travel ban by visiting Cuba illegally this summer...
...Castro propagandists," Darrow said, "but we do believe students with a legitimate interest should be allowed to see what has been done on the island. If the State Department ban keeps us from estimating accurately how popular communion is, it can only be self-defeating...